Instead of doing things piecemeal, i'll just put it all in big chunks, beginning with:

Sports
I heard it again last week on the NFL network, how Joe Namath and the Jets “made the oddsmakers look stupid.” From that afternoon in January 1969 through the present, every superbowl week, sportswriters poke fun at the bookies over Broadway Joe. For the most part, I have been quite proud that most of the folks in New Orleans, among just a handful of other places, know better. But...