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Bob Duff has been covering the online sports betting and casino industry since 2016. From major sporting events such as the NFL, NBA, MLB, UFC, NHL, Olympic Games and UEFA Champions League soccer, he’s also offered betting advice on such sports as chess, surfing, rugby and even marble racing. Duff has worked in the sports media industry since 1984. As a sports columnist with The Windsor Star, CanWest News Services, Postmedia and MSNBC.com, he covered a variety of major events, including the Stanley Cup final, World Cup of Hockey, Super Bowl, World Series, the 1996 Atlanta and 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, NBA Finals, Ryder Cup, FIFA World Cup, NCAA Final Four and the Memorial Cup. Duff is partners in Detroit Hockey Now, a Detroit Red Wings web site. He is also the co-producer of the Give And Go Sport Education documentary that discusses the advantages of a multi-sport lifestyle in youth sport. He has also freelanced for such publications as The Hockey News, Beckett Hockey, Faceoff and Prospects Magazine. Duff is a contributor to The NHL Guide And Record Book, and Total Hockey, helped the NHL significantly in writing and research projects related to the league's 100th anniversary celebrations, and is listed as an honorary member of the Elias Sports Bureau. He is a member of the Professional Hockey Writers Association and the Baseball Writers Association Of America, through which he is on the writers’ committee that votes annually on the candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame. As well, he is a published author of more than 25 books. Duff's books include The China Wall: The Timeless Legend of Johnny Bower; The Bruise Brothers: Hockey's Heavyweight Champions; Nicklas Lidstrom: The Pursuit of Perfection; Nine: A Tribute To Gordie Howe; Nineteen: A Tribute To Steve Yzerman; Seven: A Tribute to Ted Lindsay; and The History of Hockeytown; and I Wore 21: The Desmond Howard Story. Duff doesn’t merely write about sports, he plays them. He was an ice hockey goalie for 50 years, once famously winning a charity penalty shot shootout competition against NHL star Jason Spezza, and still plays rugby in the Niagara Rugby Union for Windsor Rogues RFC.