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2. Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator) - Wikipedia

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   The sports line eventually led to a 12-year stint on the CBS Sunday morning show, The NFL Today, a pregame show for National Football League (NFL) games, starting in 1976. . Known simply as "Jimmy the Greek," he would appear in segments with sportscaster Brent Musburger and predict the results of that week's NFL gam

3. The history of Super Bowl betting, from a William Perry prop ...

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   It was clearly the first big moment for Super Bowl betting, which has become the biggest day on the sports betting calendar. Famed oddsmaker Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder proclaimed that the Baltimore ...

4. Former ESPN reporter and handicapper Hank Goldberg dies at 82

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   Goldberg started as an assistant to handicapper Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder in the 1970s before eventually finding his way to ESPN, where he finished .500 or better in 15 of 17 NFL seasons he covered ...

5. Handicapping - Wikipedia

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   The first very well known sports handicapper in American culture was Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder. [8] During his career he worked for CBS on their Sunday morning show, The NFL Today. Because sports betting had a social taboo at the time, Snyder was not allowed to mention betting on games specifically. Instead, he would predict the score.

6. Brent Musburger - Wikipedia

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   Musburger made headlines when he got into a fist-fight with The NFL Today ' s betting analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder in a Manhattan bar on October 27, 1980. [9] However, the fist-fight incident was quickly regarded as water under the bridge as the two cheerfully appeared on The NFL Today the following week wearing boxing gloves on camera. [10]

7. Hank Goldberg, a foundational figure of Miami sports radio ...

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   He ghost wrote the syndicated newspaper columns by the first famous national sports handicapper, Jimmy the Greek. He brought NFL gambling talk to cable television doing so blatantly on ESPN in the ...

8. List of NFL on CBS announcers - Wikipedia

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   Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder: studio analyst (1976–1987) Gordy Soltau; Ken Stabler: analyst (1987–1989) George Starke; Bart Starr: analyst (1973–1974)

9. The King of Vegas: Legendary Hall of Fame oddsmaker Jimmy ...

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   The stories don't stop. One time, when Vaccaro was running the sports book at The Mirage, the book had a terrible day and lost $1.4 million. Vaccaro got a call from casino/resort owner Steve Wynn.