Scamdicappers in to Scramdicappers

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Mike Warren, the veteran handicapper whose 30-year track record of good results still eclipses most of the present top handicappers announced nowadays that he is appearing out of retirement "in order to regenerate some dignity, class - and accuracy" to the industry I helped create."

"My wife told me right away that I was way too young to quit , but I thought your woman was just trying to get me out of the house," said Warren. "But, after that, after watching the guys who've come after me : the 'Warren Wannabes,' as I call them - I realize that she was right from the start. Once i left, the vultures descended.

"Now, I'm coming back to drive them back into their caves - to turn the scamdicappers into scramdicappers."

Warren first came to dominance more than 30 years back when he started his / her Mike Warren Sports (MWS) service in the downstairs room of his Baltimore home. Within a decade, the budding sports advisory empire was making more than $5 million a year. By the time of Warren's retirement, MWS had gross revenues of nearly $20 million annually.

In 1989, Warren introduced the first sports handicapping TV infomercial, "Beat the Pros." The favorite Saturday morning program capabilities legendary football coach Friend Ryan and Hall regarding Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor. The program format ended up being latter copied by additional handicappers nationwide.

So productive was the industry giant MWS that, in 1990, CNN talk show host Larry King, in a public interview with Warren, described him "the man that invented modern handicapping." In 1996, in a guide article on football handicapping, Sports Illustrated cited Warren as the nation's major handicapper after monitoring athletics picks over a a single-month period. Your late CBS sport's analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snider dubbed Warren "The Wizard of Odds."

From 1970 until Warren's "premature," as he now terms it, retirement within 2002, MWS recorded an astounding record of 76 % overall winning football picks. In the mid-1970s, Warren invented the thought of the "Iron Lock," a game handicappers for the most part dub a "can't lose" pick. Warren's Iron Lock record over a 30-year period had been 23-7 in the college ranks and 26-4 in the NFL.