#Mailman Phil

LAS VEGAS - In the late 1970s, cocky young prognosticator Danny Sheridan boasted of his magnificent acumen picking football winners to Mort Olshan, who brainstormed a test. Give me the team that won and whether it had covered the spread, Olshan said, of two games that were played last weekend. Sheridan, who claimed to have a photographic memory,…

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…