Chad Millman
28 Posts

Chad Millman
28 Posts
NFL Sports Betting & Host of "The Favorites"
Role
Chief Content Officer
Experience
25 years
Location
Connecticut

Summary

Chad Millman is the Chief Content Officer for The Action Network, a media company providing premium analysis as well as real-time betting data. He leads the overarching direction of sports betting coverage and hosts the popular NFL betting podcast, The Favorites, which is sponsored by FanDuel Sportsbook.

Experience

Chad is a Journalist and writer, as well as a former reporter and editor for Sports Illustrated and ESPN The Magazine. He is also an award-winning author of several nonfiction books, including Pickup Artists: Street Basketball in America.

Education

Chad has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the Indiana University Bloomington in Journalism/Political Science.

More from Chad Millman

Week 3 NFL Picks: The 5 Games This Pro Bettor Said He Loves

Welp, that whole undefeated thing didn’t last very long. After a 5-0 week to start the season and the inside track to $1M dollar in the DraftKings Pro Football

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

Week 2 NFL Picks: The 5 Games This Pro Bettor Said He Loves

Undefeated! 5-0! No. 1! Right now there is no one in the world better at picking NFL games than me and Simon Hunter. We are in first place in the

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

Week 1 NFL Picks: The 5 Games This Pro Bettor Said He Loves

The pick ‘em contest dream is to cash, big. You wanna spend that last weekend of the season locked in a hotel room and feel the high that comes from

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

The Mavericks Who Remade Sports, Part III: The Money Generation, A New Era of Sports Fandom and Betting

This is Part III in our series Money Guts and Brains: The Mavericks Who Remade Sports. Check out Part I on Charles McNeil, inventor of the point spread, and Part

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

The Mavericks Who Remade Sports, Part II: The Oddsmaker Who Globalized Sports Betting

This is Part II in our series Money Guts and Brains: The Mavericks Who Remade Sports. Check out Part I on Charles McNeil, inventor of the point spread, and Part

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

The Mavericks Who Remade Sports, Part I: Charles McNeil, Father of the Point Spread

This is Part I in our series Money Guts and Brains: The Mavericks Who Remade Sports. Check out Part II on Las Vegas bookmaker Roxy Roxborough, and Part III on

Chad Millman
Nov 19, 2021 UTC

That Time Gangsters Asked a Professional Baseball Player to Throw a Game

Don August won a silver medal as a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic baseball team. He pitched four years in the majors with the Milwaukee Brewers, winning 13

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

Millman: 10 Things We'd Rather Do Than Bet on the Pro Bowl

Once upon a time we cared. Like we did about pet rocks (1970s), Cabbage Patch Kids (1980s) and over-sized flannel shirts (1990s). For decades the Pro Bowl was all those

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

Millman: How to Enter the 11th Annual 'Get Your Prop Up in Vegas' Contest

This past winter vacation, my family and I were in Southern California. It was miserable weather, everyday we layered on everything we had packed and tried to find a way

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

How '256 Or Bust' Didn't Go Bust: Millman's Lessons from Betting Every NFL Game

We’d made it 16 weeks betting every NFL game together — 240 of ’em in all — and done quite well for ourselves, but in Week 17, my best friend

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

Millman: Who Would Be the First Inductees into the Sports Betting Hall of Fame?

The best debate in all of sports isn’t whether or not Colin Kaepernick should play or who should be the NBA MVP or how should (insert cheating, video-taping champion

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

Millman: Here's How You Should Bet on Bad Teams

The results started pouring between 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. They looked like election results scrolling across my NFL RedZone screen. So many losers! I was

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

Millman: Which Teams Could Go Last-to-First in the NFL?

Seasons are long, events are random, the ball bounces in funny ways. Whichever way you want to explain it, what the Washington Nationals have done, and what the St. Louis

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

Millman: Aristotle Is Wrong and Other Reasons I’m Betting the Browns and Jags

Several years ago, back when Wikipedia first dazzled us, the wisdom of the crowds became a thing … again. You really couldn’t get away from it, the idea was

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC

3 Ways to Bet Redskins-Dolphins

Facts are facts, despite how much we are told to believe otherwise these days. And this much I know to be true: There has never been a winless team whose

Chad Millman
Sep 23, 2021 UTC
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