Posts by Sal Iacono

  • Bill and Sal’s 2014 NFL Degenerate Gambling Preview: AFC South

    Bill Simmons and Cousin Sal look at the lowly AFC South and decide the Colts are likely the only 10-win team. They can’t decide why they don’t like the Texans, but they don’t; they think Blake Bortles may succeed despite his name; and they premiere a new game show called ‘Are We Sure He’s Good?’

  • Cousin Sal’s First Pitch

    Throwing out the first pitch before a Mets home game was kind of a big deal.

  • Bill and Sal’s 2014 NFL Degenerate Gambling Preview: AFC North

    Grantland’s Bill Simmons and Cousin Sal look at the AFC North, a division with three legitimate contenders (Bengals, Steelers, and Ravens), and one team that’s “built for next year” (Browns). Bill and Sal agree that the Bengals will likely win the division, which usually means that they won’t.

  • Bill and Sal’s 2014 NFL Degenerate Gambling Preview: AFC East

    Bill Simmons and Cousin Sal look hard at all the lines, spreads, and odds in the AFC East. Bill is confident about his Patriots, but Sal thinks the Dolphins and Ryan Tannehill could surprise the league.

  • Cousin Sal’s March Madness Prop Bets

    March Madness. Absolutely my favorite betting event of the year. Unless you count the NFL preseason, NFL regular season, NFL postseason, and, of course, the July 4 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.

  • Cousin Sal’s Oscar Prop Bets: Forget About Your Pool, It’s Time to Make Some Real Money

    The Academy Awards are once again upon us and you know what that means … only 185 more days until the first NFL game kicks off. Deep breaths, degenerate pigskin gamblers — we can do this.

  • Cousin Sal’s Super Bowl Prop Bets!

    This is the final opportunity the casual gambler has to beat the house, so you have to stay laser focused on a pigskin payout.

  • Cousin Sal’s Championship Weekend Prop Bets

    It’s almost over. You only have to put up with my gushing misleads for two more weeks before I venture off into the sports hell hibernation known as the offseason. Here are some seal-tight prop picks for the conference championship week.

  • Marshawn Lynch

    Cousin Sal’s Divisional Round Prop Bets

    Week 17: -67,500 jermajesties Season Total: -202,000 jermajesties (Obligatory weekly explanation: A “jermajesty” represents the fake name given for a dollar amount in this series. It’s also the unfortunate name of one of Jermaine Jackson’s sons.) The divisional round of the NFL playoffs is easily my favorite football betting weekend of the year. It’s odd […]

  • Colin Kaepernick

    Cousin Sal’s NFL Wild-Card Weekend Prop Bets

    Week 17: +60,000 jermajesties Season total: -134,500 jermajesties (Obligatory weekly explanation: A “jermajesty” represents the fake name given for a dollar amount in this series. It’s also the unfortunate name of one of Jermaine Jackson’s sons.) Wow, look at that. I actually was in the black last week. Maybe I should piggyback Bill Simmons’s column […]

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