{"id":2560,"date":"2008-11-05T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/gold-sheet-sports-reporter-northcoast-sports-tip-sheet\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:37:00","slug":"gold-sheet-sports-reporter-northcoast-sports-tip-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/gold-sheet-sports-reporter-northcoast-sports-tip-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Sheet, Sports Reporter, Northcoast Sports Tip Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><font color=\"#333333\" face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:#333333'>sports handicappers<\/span><\/font><\/a> are often asked about the value of tip sheets. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For football handicapping they have some value as a starting point. Sports Reporter, the Gold Sheet and <span class=SpellE>Northcoast<\/span> are among the best and Doctor Bob has some good technical angles but I still rate them light years behind the hometown newspapers. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>First of all the hometown papers have writers who cover the team full-time and specialize. Secondly the tip sheets still make a lot of money from their hard copy publications. This requires early week deadlines as they don&#8217;t have the circulation efficiency of the daily rags to get their publication to the newsstands within hours of going to press. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><font color=\"#333333\" face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:#333333'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>believes the tout sheets have their place, and have value for midweek bullet points, but a quality handicapper has so many <span class=GramE>other<\/span> more <span class=SpellE>ripely<\/span> and particularized informants.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our sports handicappers are often asked about the value of tip sheets. For football handicapping they have some value as a starting point. Sports Reporter, the Gold Sheet and Northcoast are among the best and Doctor Bob has some good technical angles but I still rate them light years behind the hometown newspapers. First of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/gold-sheet-sports-reporter-northcoast-sports-tip-sheet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gold Sheet, Sports Reporter, Northcoast Sports Tip Sheet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}