Kansas City Chief, Christian Okoye, to appear in Topeka, KSWritten by Keith Hunt
Former Kansas City Chiefs All Pro running back, Christian Okoye, will make a personal appearance for autograph signing at West Ridge Mall in Topeka, KS on October 23rd 2004 from 11am to 2.00pm.Okoye, AKA "The Nigerian Nightmare" played many great games in his seven-year career as a Kansas City Chief. He went on to set records in rushing yardage and touchdowns for 43-year old franchise and became Chiefs all time leading rusher. His appearance is in conjunction with Mo-Ark Sports Card and Collectible Show being held in mall from Friday October 22nd to Sunday October 24th. The show features 60 dealers from 5 states offering a wide range of collectibles including Kansas City Chiefs items Nascar diecast. The West Ridge Mall is located at 1801 SW Wanamaker Rd Topeka, KS with show and mall hours on Friday and Saturday of 10am-9pm and Noon-6pm on Sunday. Okoye’s career was an outstanding achievement considering Okoye played football for only three years before playing for Kansas City. Prior to playing for Chiefs, he played football at Azusa-Pacific University as well as competing in track and field; where he won seven national titles in shot-put, discus and hammer throw as well as amassing 17 All American honors in track and field.
| | "The Concept of Value in Sports Betting!"Written by Daniel B King
In sports betting you need to make sure that your bets (and trades) are good value in order to make a profit. If you do not do this you will still win bets but profits may be harder to achieve.Let me explain this last statement. I actually lose more bets than I win - but prices or odds at which I bet compensate for losing plays. If you bet all season long on NY Yankees (US Baseball) or Arsenal FC (English Premiership) - to win each game - you will probably end up with a fairly good winning strike rate - but it is unlikely that you will make any money. The odds will be 'short' and you may do better to try and predict when these teams might falter - and bet against them at over inflated prices being offered on opposing teams. These opposing teams will most likely offer value - as they are not popular betting choice. When we flip a coin, we know that true chance of it turning up heads or tails is 50% or 'evens' (1/1). As an example we set up a 'coin flipping' betting event. A neutral party begins to flip coin. With each subsequent flip there is a definite preference for heads in betting. The bookmaker or sportsbook takes this in his stride, he has already set odds at 10/11 (-110 US) for either outcome which takes into account his commission. He knows that this trend is fairly usual as heads is often favored in this type of event. He decides, however, to balance his books a little by reducing his odds on heads to 5/6 and increasing tails to 1/1.
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