My casual interest in sports betting turned into a full-fledged passion in the early 1990s when I began making regular trips from my Southern California home to Las Vegas sportsbooks. A past winner of ESPN Insider’s Las Vegas Super Bowl Prop contest, I launched my own sports betting website — TheVegasParlay.com — a decade ago. I rely on various data and analytics-based information to handicap multiple sports, with an emphasis on college basketball and Major League Baseball.