ISBN: 1628732660 9781628732665

Category: Games & Activities / Gambling / Sports

Page count: 272

The incredible rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches true life story of acclaimed sports tout Brandon Lang, subject of the motion picture <i>Two for the Money</i> (Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey). <i>Beating the Odds</i> describes in vivid, colorful detail Lang’s rise from small time sports-phone tout to big time national exposure, his dramatic fall, and his subsequent rebirth in the internet age. Also describes the series of improbable events, while working as a golf caddie in Los Angeles, that eventually led Lang to the optioning of his story to Hollywood and the making of <i>Two for the Money</i>.