Joseph D'Amico
Jordan Haimowitz
Jordan is among the worlds best handicappers.
Rocky Atkinson
My Handicapping and Betting Philosophy: I use my own unique power ratings for each sport along with trend analysis, stats and line value.
Craig Trapp
Craig has been handicapping for 10 years. Over that 10 years he learned how to study games and the lines and developed a winning strategy.
Johnny Banks
Johnny Banks has been betting on sports successfully for several years and in 2009 he decided to take his sports picks public to help the average sports bettor beat the books.
The Last Train from Harrow Bend
The station at Harrow Bend had seen better days. Its paint was peeling, its clock ran four minutes slow, and most evenings the platform held no one but Edith Crane, who came not to travel but to watch the last train pass through on its way to the city she had left forty years before.
She had been young then, with a suitcase full of plans and a ticket she never used. A letter had come the morning of her departure — her mother had fallen ill — and Edith had unpacked her bags and stayed. The plans faded, the years folded over one another, and the city became a place she only visited in her mind.
One autumn evening a stranger sat beside her on the worn wooden bench. He was a young man with a suitcase of his own, nervous and uncertain, waiting for the same last train. He asked her if the journey was worth it. Edith was quiet for a moment, watching the rails catch the last of the light.
“Go,” she told him gently. “Whatever keeps you here will still be here when you return. But the train won’t wait, and neither will the years.” The young man studied her face, then nodded, and when the train arrived he stepped aboard without looking back.
Edith stayed on the bench as the red lights shrank into the dark. She felt no sorrow — only a quiet warmth, as if by sending him forward she had finally taken the journey herself. The clock ticked on, four minutes slow, and the empty platform held, for once, no regret.
