SPORTS REPORTER©
Our original flagship weekly publication of Pro and College Football forecasts
is still going strong after all these years.
Founded in 1975 by the late Richard Bomze, Sports Reporter© was a weekly newsstand sellout, and kept postal subscribers tingling with excitement waiting for the mailman to arrive —
(and furious when he was late!)
Today, under editor, publisher, and chief handicapping content producer Bobby Smith, Sports Reporter© continues the grand tradition of the ol’ Blue Sheet with the best written forecasts in the sports information business — entertaining as well as informative — with unique insights only experienced handicappers can generate.
It includes BEST BET and RECOMMENDED selections and written forecasts of all games on the weekly NFL and D-1 College Football cards, including score margins and final score predictions.
Sports Reporter© is now an online exclusive, posting every Tuesday afternoon of football game-week.
THE YEAR WAS 1975
Pittsburgh beat Dallas 21–17 in the Super Bowl. Bobby Knight’s Indiana Hoosiers went undefeated to win the NCAA College Basketball title. The Golden State Warriors, led by Rick Barry, won the NBA Championship. Barry Switzer and Oklahoma claimed the #1 ranking in college football.
It was a memorable year in sports, but one that the bookmakers would rather forget, because Sports Reporter© made its debut as a weekly forecast newspaper, sold on newsstands and by mailed subscription.
Suddenly, their clients got smarter. Soon, publisher and founder Richard Bomze’s baby, nicknamed the “Blue Sheet,”
was rocking the sporting world strongly enough with its Best Bets and Major Wagers to merit coverage on NBC’s Today Show and in Newsweek, home of the great gambling columnist Pete Axthelm.
Sports Reporter© handicappers were celebrated as wily “foxes” and “gurus,”
on their way to entertaining and informing generations of sports bettors with insights on how to be king of the hill in football.
Still Smart. Still Sharp. Still Blue
Today, under veteran editor and content producer Bobby Smith, the ol’ Blue Sheet upholds that tradition — now distributed electronically via PDF, and supported by the Midweek Update for NFL and College Football, and the Daily Brief for NBA and College Basketball. Active member subscribers also get bonus content at no extra charge during Thoroughbred Racing’s Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup days.
The Sports Reporter© network spots what others miss — mismatches, style edges, and the subtle truths behind the stats. If you’ve never been a Sports Reporter Online member, give us a try. You’ll quickly see why we’re the trusted source for honest, accurate sports info: Just $1.33/day for 30 days. Less than $1/day for a full year.
MIDWEEK UPDATE
(Included with your Sports Reporter© Online membership!)
A handful of extra spot-play, updated essays — every Friday during football season.
BEST BET and RECOMMENDED selections only — Sides and Totals — made with the advantage of extra time to identify and factor in:
- injury statuses
- matchup edges
- weather reports
- suspensions
- coaching clues
– anything we can uncover with 72 more hours of study that helps the winners come to us, and be passed along to our Sports Reporter Online member readers.
Extra coverage not found in the weekly Sports Reporter© issue. Why? Because stuff happens post-publication.
Our guys find out. They report it. You capitalize on it.
Sometimes, the best new information is the new information that’s best ignored, but the majority of the public (not us!) acts on it in error.
We’ll point that out too — before it happens — in a fresh Midweek Update, every Friday.
DAILY BRIEF
(Included with your Sports Reporter© Online membership!)
The Daily Brief for Basketball and Baseball
transformed sportsreporter.com
into a 24/7, 365-days-a-year marvel of the electronic information age.
As an integral part of the Sports Reporter Online membership package, the Daily Brief delivers quality Pro and College Basketball, and Major League Baseball handicapping analyses and selection content — year-round.