Posts by Dermot Hunt
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The Greater Fool Betting Tips: From Jacksonville to Manchester City
My personal quest to discover precisely how much of a fool I am (and whether my foolishness is of the greater or lesser variety) has gotten off to a flying start, and I now have a much clearer idea of my failings as a tipster, and indeed as a human. Last week, I posted five picks; […]
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The Greater Fool Betting Tips: From Green Bay to Marseille
“The greater fool is … a patsy. For the rest of us to profit, we need a greater fool, someone who will buy long and sell short. Most people spend their lives trying not to be the greater fool; we toss in the hot potato, we dive for his seat when the music stops. The […]
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Floyd Mayweather Suffers His First Defeat (at the Sportsbook)
If you’re incautious enough to spend any period of time looking at online gambling forums, two things will probably occur. Firstly, your faith in humanity will quickly disappear, and secondly, you’ll be amazed by how gullible people can be. Any online claim of extraordinary betting prowess will immediately be met with the challenge “pics or […]
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Oscar Pistorius Stars in Blade Runner 2: This Time It’s Personal
The Olympics and Paralympics have been a dream come true for advertisers. The London Games have been short on scandal and long on inspiration, generating a feel-good factor in Great Britain that has been eagerly co-opted by companies seeking to bask in the reflected glow of Olympian glory. An endless stream of British athletes walking […]
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Murderball: The Best Sport You’ve Never Seen
Today’s the day, folks; the Paralympic murderball tournament has begun, and I’m about to tell you why you should be watching, but first of all, we need to clear one thing up. The governing body of the sport may have changed the official name of murderball to “wheelchair rugby,” to make it sound more palatable […]
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From Goalball to Murderball: The Five Must-See Paralympic Events
The Paralympics have begun, and that means that there will be several hundred hours of sports being streamed live on the official Paralympic website. The likelihood is that most of these events will be unfamiliar to you, and there’s no way that you can watch them all, so to help you prioritize your viewing we’ve […]
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Meet the Superhumans
The Paralympics are here, people! Are you excited? I’m excited! Who’s with me? Hello? OK, we seem to have a hype deficit here, but this is a solvable issue. I prescribe watching this for 90 seconds.
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The Decline and Fall of the Glasgow Rangers Empire
This Sunday, Glasgow Rangers FC will play a league match in England for the first time in their history. Glaswegians have been hoping this would happen for a very long time, because both Rangers and their bitter rivals, Glasgow Celtic, dominate Scottish football to an absurd degree, but struggle to compete in European club competitions. […]
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Fantasy Premier League Guide: To Van Persie, or Not to Van Persie
A new English Premier League season starts tomorrow, unless your name is Joey Barton, in which case it starts in mid-November. Barton picked up a 12-match ban after trying to start a fight with half of Manchester at the end of last season, and as a result he’s going to be pretty quiet for the […]
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The Drugs Don’t Work (in the Olympics)
Another Olympics has come to a close, and we’ve had the usual barrage of doping controversies to mull over, varying from scurrilous insinuations about 16-year-old girls to justified concern over rehabilitated (and unrepentant) ex-dopers winning medals. So, what else is new? Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of this Olympics is how comfortable we’ve become with drug […]
