As my favorite Internet message board gadfly Jeff Jones says, everybody is a winner in sports betting ... until they're forced to make their picks publicly, before the games go off.
Surely some of the contestants in Las Vegas' two big football handicapping invitationals are the real McCoy.
It's just that so far they've been more like Sherman McCoy, Tom Wolfe's protagonist in "The Bonfire of the Vanities," who was always "hemorrhaging money," in the novelist's memorable phrase.
