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Press Highlights for Pregame.com

by RJ_Bell on 04/17/2009 4:19 PM

Pregame.com is the most quoted sports betting news site in the world. Founder & CEO RJ Bell is the only sports bettor on Forbes' recent list of Gambling Gurus and has been called "a true insider" by ESPN, "incredibly astute" by AOL and a "point-spread maven" by USA Today.

Pregame.com has been featured on CBS News with Katie Couric, ABC News with Charles Gibson, Nightline, Sportscenter, Outside the Lines (ESPN), First Take (ESPN2), Mike & Mike, Colin Cowherd, Jim Rome, Dan Patrick, ESPN.com, FoxSports.com, Yahoo, CNN.com and in the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, LA Times, Newsweek.com, Bloomberg, Maxim, and Sports Illustrated.

CNBC special on Gambling featured Pregame.com: show headquarters

March Madness 2010

Colin Cowherd from ESPN radio quotes RJ Bell's bracket rules. Click to Listen

ESPN.com - talking March Madness betting with Vegas Runner (3/10/10)

USA Today - Vegas is better predictor than bracket seeds (3/16/10)

Fox Sports' Ben Maller - Odds of a perfect bracket (3/16/10)

Super Bowl XLIV

TV: ESPN's "First Take" - RJ Bell appears live, talking Super Bowl betting props (2/4/10)

USA Today National Print Edition. Front Page of Sports section. (2/1/10) - online version

ESPN's Mike and Mike radio show quotes Pregame.com (2/3/10) - LISTEN

Doug Gottlieb interviews RJ Bell on his ESPN national radio show - talking Super Bowl Betting (2/5/10) - LISTEN

ESPN.com Sportsnation Poll features Pregame.com props! (2/3/10)

ESPN.com Super Bowl Betting article featuring Pregame.com (2/5/10)

USA Today: Colts getting all the early action (1/26/10)

USA Today: Prop bet overview (2/1/10)

USA Today: Biggest Bet Super Bowl ever (2/3/10)

Bloomberg: Highest scoring Super Bowl ever? (1/29/10)

Forbes: Craziest Prop bets (2/3/09)

Fox Sports' Ben Maller - Props (2/3/10) and amount bet on Super Bowl (2/4/10) and Popular Prop winners (2/8/10)

USA Today blogs - Vegas has won 17 of 19 Super Bowls (2/4/10)

USA Today blogs - Popular Prop results (2/8/10)

RJ Bell on the AOL Fanhouse podcast, talking Super Bowl betting (2/4/10) - LISTEN

Colin Cowherd quotes Pregame.com on Super Bowl XLV odds: CLICK TO LISTEN

USA Today blogs - Super Bowl XLV odds (2/9/10)

ESPN's Chad Millman writes about breakfast with RJ Bell and Vegas Runner: ArticlePicture

2010 NFL Playoffs:

USA Today: Odds to win the Super Bowl (1/22/09)

Forbes - Preseason odds compared to odds before conference championship (1/22/10)

Fox Sports' Ben Maller - Odds to win Super Bowl + Saints over/under (1/22/09)

ESPN calls RJ Bell a "sports betting info genius" in Chad Millman's column (1/15/09)

Bloomberg: Odds of Jets having home playoff game (1/14/2010) 

Tiger Woods Press Conference (2/19/10)

NBC Sports

Forbes

Ben Maller of Fox Sports


2009 Football Season

ESPN The Magazine. December 2009 issue. RJ Bell talking NFL. See scan of cover & quote

ESPN.com article on Bowl Betting (12/29/09), with insights from Vegas Runner. Featured on ESPN homepage! See article.

ESPN TV: "First Take" 12/4/2009 (Colts/Saints odds) - Watch RJ's Interview

ESPN TV: "Outside the Lines" 9/6/2009 (Point Shaving) - Watch RJ's Interview

Colin Cowherd Radio Show (12/17/2009) - Thanks Pregame.com for the holiday gift basket we sent the show as a thank you for using so much of our orginal reporting - LISTEN

Colin Cowherd Radio Show (11/12/2009) - Vegas splitting results down middle - LISTEN (Colin calls Pregame.com "the largest sports betting news site compliant with US Law")

Colin Cowherd Radio Show (11/16/2009) - Belichick's 4th Down Decision - LISTEN

Weekly sports gambling guest on ESPN 710 in Los Angeles (Mason & Ireland drive-time show) - Friday 4:00 pt

Regular sports betting column for NationalFootballPost.com

ESPN.com - Chad Millman - 12/9/09 - called RJ Bell a "sports betting info guru"

ESPN.com - Chad Millman - 12/6/09

ESPN.com features Pregame.com betting numbers on Alabama/Texas game - and mentions Vegas Runner again. (1/6/010)

ESPN The Magazine - 10/7/09 - called Pregame.com: "site that's full of the kind of sophisticated analytics you'd expect to find analysts at The Fed running, only it's all applied to making smart plays on games."

Bloomberg: Boise State odds vs. Texas or Alamama (1/5/09)

Fox Sports - Heisman Trophy odds (12/14/2009)

Fox Sports - Ben Maller's Column (Nov 12, 2009) - Vegas spliting results down the middle

9/18/09: "America's Morning News" on the National Talk Radio Network, talking NFL kickoff.

Saints/Colts Going Undefeated?

SportsNation - ESPN TV (12/4/09) - Tweet talking about quote

Mike & Mike - ESPN National Radio (11/19/09) - LISTEN

Wall Street Journal (12/4/09)

Wall Street Journal (12/18/2009)

Bloomberg (Nov 27, 2009)

The Washington Times - Colts/Saints undefeated odds (Dec 2, 2009)

Ben Maller from Fox Sports - Colts/Saints undefeated odds with 3 games to go (Dec 17, 2009)

World Series 2009:

Bloomberg (October 16, 2009)

Bloomberg (Oct 26, 2009)

Bloomberg (Nov 4, 2009)

Effect of NBA Replacement Referees:

AOL Fanhouse

USA Today 

The return of Brett Farve to the NFL:

USAToday.com twice in one day! (#1; #2)

College Football Preseason 2009

FoxSports.com: Ben Maller's college sports rumors (8/10/09 and 8/11/09)

ESPN Sports Nation with Colin Cowherd (see his Tweet about the on air mention)

ESPN.com: Chad Millman's Blog (see article)

Guest on ESPN 710 in LA (Mason & Ireland drive-time show) - 8/12/09 (podcast of show)

NFL Preseason 2009

Front page of Fox Sports and MSNBC (read)

USA Today (#1; #2)

Ben Maller's NFL Rumors on FoxSports.com (9/10/09)

Academic Study from Harvard Law School:

Contributor to award winning paper titled: "Preventing Gaming-Fixing: Sports Books as Information Markets" (view)

Toledo Point Shaving (May 2009)

Guest on "Outside the LInes" on ESPN (watch video)

USA Today (Print Edition) - May 7, 2009 (Section C, page 2) - web version

Dan Patrick's national radio show (listen) - starting at the 26 minute mark

ESPN.com feature story (page 1; page 2)

March Madness 2009:

CNBC (watch | blog #1 | blog #2 | blog #3)

Mike & Mike: 3/17/09 (listen)

ESPN radio: Los Angeles 710am (3/30/09)

ESPN radio: John Kincade national (4/5/09)

USA Today (#1 | #2 | #3 | #4)

Bloomberg (#1 | #2 | #3)

Fox Sports

Fox News

Forbes

Business Week

Voice of America

China Post

and a Columbia stat professor's blog!

Super Bowl 2009:

ESPN First Take (watch)
Also mentioned on ESPN's "First Take" on 1/23/09.

Jim Rome Show (watch)

Mike & Mike ESPN National Radio [three times]
(watch) | (listen) leading off hour | (listen) 30 minute, 45 second mark

Especially nice that Mike & Mike said: "Our friend RJ Bell is the guy with all the odds"

ESPN National radio with Doug Gottlieb (listen)
starting at the 88 minute mark

Yahoo

Fox Sports (#1; #2)


Forbes (#1; #2)

Bloomberg (#1; #2)

Deadspin

Kissing Suzy Kolber


Newsweek


Newsday

NY Daily News

New York Magazine

MSNBC

AOL Fan House (#1; #2)

Nice that AOL called RJ Bell: "incredibly astute"

USA Today blogs (#1; #2; #3; #4; #5; #6)

Pre-2009 Selected Highlights:

ABC News w/ Charles Gibson (watch)
ESPN's Sports Center (watch)
CNBC (watch)
Nightline
ESPN.com
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
Associated Press
CBS News
CNN.com
CBSsports.com
Washington Post
Forbes
Business Week
Newsweek.com
AOL
DeadSpin
Sporting News
Sports Illustrated
Salon.com
MSNBC.com
FoxSports.com
Bloomberg
Yahoo





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