#Paul Stone

Bowl season is a great time of year for college football bettors and Paul Stone is one of the best. Stone, who has been doing our Live Bet Saturday shows this season, shared some thoughts with Mitch Moss and Pauly Howard on about an Ohio State vs. Michigan National Championship rematch and then bowl angles on several games. Stone: "I made Ohio…

On Friday nights in the fall for more than a decade, football bettors would crowd a small, smoky sportsbook on the Strip to see two handicappers go head to head in a $10000 winner-take-all contest. The contestants' names were lit up outside on the marquee, adding an element of prestige to being a part of the Stardust Invitational. The contest…

LAS VEGAS - Six seasons into his run as Michigan coach, Jim Harbaugh was an overhyped underachiever. At the end of his seventh year, Harbaugh has rewritten the storyline, and now he's a hungry underdog in the hunt for the national championship. If the favorites live up to the hype in the College Football Playoff semifinals, Alabama and Georgia will…

LAS VEGAS - How can a plan executed so well, securing the best of the college football lines at a 70-plus-percent clip with Circa's opening numbers, flop so miserably, eviscerate profits and create a deficit? Mailman Phil contemplated just that as he settled into a diner booth, 30 feet from an adjacent mom-and-pop sportsbook on the Vegas…

Since the opening lines for bowls hit the board at Caesars Sportsbooks on Dec. 5, the favorite has flipped in 10 games, and the spread in the Quick Lane Bowl has moved 11 points. It's only the beginning of the annual high-stakes guessing game between bettors and bookmakers that has become a college football tradition during bowl season in the age…

About 15 minutes after the NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed Sunday, the South Point sportsbook posted lines on the first 32 games, and sharp bettors promptly fired away. A few hours later, South Point sportsbook director Chris Andrews' head was still spinning from all the action, as he recounted the biggest sharp plays and line moves. "We wrote…