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Last week the Gold Sheet Key Release was Minnesota U, when Bruce Marshall (gold sheet writeup guy for the 40 years i have been reading it) released the opposite side with Nebraska it was confirmed to me one of the Wager Talk guys (ralph micheals ...a guess maybe) or one of the wagertalk guys is doing the writeups.
i tried to read a couple of the writeups....doesnt sound anything like the previous. Idk, is it me, it was tough to read. I remember getting the sheet when i was first able to drive and Mort was still on it. I'd drive on thursdays to a newstand.... lots of good info and look aheads in the week for basketball.......id recommend to anyone starting off to read those guys. If nothing else was entertaining to my interests as much as anything i could read.
I remember that they were calling him Mort " Two Sides " Olshan in the old Score newsletter out of Boston.
really, did he give out two both sides ? i never bought a play but sometimes they'd be posted in here or the old cappersmall but i never saw a goldsheet play differ than what was in the newsletters. I dont know how much he was writing back then but it was pretty smooth from Mort to Marshall. Goldsheet was really the only one i've read ....i drove about 25 mins to st louis from my parents. .... i dont know if those guys did all the writing but i used to want to fade the caption that started off with the word "Sure" .... something like Sure the 49ers went to Pittsburgh and drubbed the Steelers 30-7 behind 152 rushing yards by CM, but......i dont know who wrote those.....Mort i know had the "if someone asked me i'd say" cover story. Those guys were on top of the chicainery, the politics et al... from senator John Mccain trying to ban wagering on collegiate sports to the breakthrough to legalization in New Jersey. The same people who fought it now had their hand out saying it's our product we should get a cut. The goldsheet was news, man, i loved it.
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I have no proof of them "two siding". That Score outfit from Boston started out pretty hot winning their GOY the first 7 years so they made a lot of claims about everyone else. Early on, it was always an in season game but it ended up coming out on the last day of Bowls, usually NYD, so I thought that was sketchy. They went 50-50 the last 6 or 8 seasons and then kind of fell out. It was Bob Dunbar and about 4-5 others whose names escape me now. Willie someone and another guy who broke off from them for a few years with his own service. If I can recall them, I'll post them,
Awesome trip down memory lane. I remember getting up early to watch the tout shows on Saturday mornings, taking notes, enjoying the debates, determining who were full of it and who were just salesmen. Wanted to hear the banter - decide between the knowledge and the BS. Couldn't wait to get my GoldSheet in the mail! I might be naive still, but isn't there argument that the internet services and more published newsletters via the internet really prevent touts from playing both sides? Unless, of course, the same owner goes under two different tout names... Has anyone ever seen Wayne Allyn Root and Chip Chirimbes in the same room?...Got to meet Bob McCune (wrote a good gambling book or two) in the 80's. Sent him articles from the Mpls. StarTribune early in the week. It
was actually a job for me to supply 'info' to him, and I learned a lot about handicapping from him. He and Jack Painter were partners
and won the Super Contest once back in the day. Bob and his wife invited me to their home after
I moved out west and Bob's house was covered with data, dot matrix printer printouts. He had all the
data it was possible to have. But that's not what matters here: Bob told me numerous names who released
both sides of games, in the same day, one right after the other. I was stunned (naive) but he explained the math
of just how profitable this was. And it was mind boggling. I still have my scribbles from that weekend....
In simple math and with just ONE "service" "late telephone" (for example)
if "I" have 60 clients at $1000 week/month in todays money.
I go 5 - 0 with 10 clients
I go 4 - 1 with 10
I go 3 - 2 with 10
2 - 3 with 10, 1-4 with 10, 0-5 with 10 (These guys are done with you, but no one will ever know in the 80's.
Meanwhile the top 30 will now happily pay twice the price for "red hot" picks this week.
Of those 30 the pickster (sleazeball) will keep about 12, lose 18. Then the following week...he has very little
chance of losing half of week 3's suckers. (Can you imagine going say 10-5 and saying no if you are betting 10x
the price of the service?)
He sat their breaking it down for me as I asked about the losing weeks after 3 winning weeks. Because the first
few weeks his week 4 bettors were salivating, they would pay almost anything.
At that point the customers would be pretty pleased with themselves.
Finally after we played this game which he named names I had to sit down with some of THEM. Some were on
TV. Two of them were multi-millionaires and bought me nice dinners as I ran into them over the years. And not all,
but a few confessed to the deed of releasing both sides of the game to customers. BUT each had a similar excuse. "The lines
change kid, and you have to know that means smart money is being bet and that's our guys, so you not only get
(the word for arbitrage they would use, can't remember it) but it's a different pick altogether." By the way "Mort Olshan"
was not one of the names I was given and it was in that period that The Gold Sheet became an addiction.
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Mort Olshan died of lung cancer in 2003?
