subject: Scamdicappers in to Scramdicappers [print this page] A great news told! A great news told!
Mike Warren, the veteran handicapper whose 30-year track record of achievement still eclipses most of the present top handicappers announced right now that he is taken from retirement "in order to bring back 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 And but I thought the lady was just trying to get us out of the house," said Warren. "But, after that, after watching the guys that have come after me And the 'Warren Wannabes,' as I call them - I realize that she was right from the start. While i left, the vultures originated.
"Now, I'm coming back to drive them back into their caves - to turn the scamdicappers into scramdicappers."
Warren first came to importance more than 30 years in the past when he started their Mike Warren Sports (MWS) service in the downstairs room of his Baltimore home. Within a decade, the actual 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 most popular Saturday morning program capabilities legendary football coach Friend Ryan and Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor. The program format ended up being latter copied by some other handicappers nationwide.
So successful was the industry giant MWS that, in 1990, CNN talk show web host Larry King, in a public interview with Warren, described him "the man which invented modern handicapping." In 1996, in a direct article on football handicapping, Sports Illustrated cited Warren as the nation's leading handicapper after monitoring sports activities picks over a a single-month period. The late CBS sport's analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snider dubbed Warren "The Wizard of Odds."
From 1970 until Warren's "premature," as he right now terms it, retirement in 2002, MWS recorded an astounding record of 76 % overall winning football picks. In the mid-1970s, Warren invented the very idea of the "Iron Lock," a game handicappers conventionally 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.
