Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post


Jesus, Axelwolf, this is why I'll limit myself to once a week. But because I'm into sports betting education, here we go:

This is Street and Smith, about the most famous, kind-of-old-school college football pre-season magazine. It published forever. If I remember correctly, I think I read Street and Smith because it tried to give kicker/punter summaries for most of the college football teams in a clear fashion when many other magazines kind of blew off returning kickers unless they were all-conference or had some kind of notoriety. Pre-internet, I religiously read Street and Smith and GamePlan and another one whose name eludes me. I still read them post-internet but cross-referenced them with other sources.
Let's go one step at a time.

While you might think me to be asking if that was the correct magazine, or associated with it was dumb/odd/strange/crazy... It's really not. I think it would be hard to find many people who have ever heard of those magazines, but that can be a different debate(even a side bet). Let us take that out of the equation for now.

I googled "Tipsters or Gypsters published by Mike McCusker", and this is what came up in the top 5 or so....

WINNING STYLE | —~

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https://archive.org › download › street-smith-pro-f...
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Our winning record monitored and verified by Mike McCusker of Las Vegas. To order. McCusker's Tipsters or Gypsters, send $17 to P.O. Box 19477, Las Vegas, ...

That link took me to the link I posted up here, and that's why I asked the question in the first place. I think most reasonable people without inside direct knowledge of those publications would be wondering the same thing.
So one of the advertisers in Street and Smith mentioned "Tipsters or Gypsters?" as a way to verify their record. That makes sense.
Well, I don't know when they started verifying/monitoring, but that magazine I link to is touting this complete BULLSHIT.

Since 1974 when Harold Peterson, Staff Writer for Sports Illustrated, monitored
Danny's sensational 89% versus the spread
(184 winners of 205 games, plus 28 of 28 upset
specials

Who is monitoring the people monitoring the monitors and so on?

It's all a big monitoring circle jerk.