Rob Miech(pronounced "Mish") has been a sportswriter for more than
thirty years, having mostly written for thePasadena Star-News, CBS
SportsLine, andLas Vegas Sun.His work has also appeared inUSA
Today,TheWashington Post,San Francisco Chronicle, andBasketball
Times, among other publications.The Best American Sports
Writing(2014 edition) highlighted his profile of former UCLA
basketball player J.R. Henderson's longtime immersion into the
culture of Japan and its pro hoops league.
Miech is the author ofThe Last Natural-a behind-the-scenes account
of the 2010 junior-college baseball season that launched Bryce
Harper to fame and fortune-which the magazineSpitballshort-listed
as a top baseball book of 2012. He also authoredEleventh Heaven-the
story of UCLA's national hoops-title season of 1994-95, twenty
years after the Bruins' glory run-andOf Cowards and True Men, the
adventurous and dramatic life of controversial boxing trainer Kenny
Adams.
A longtime resident of Las Vegas, Miech is intimate with the
sports-betting arena, its characters and colors, its lexicon and
nuances, and the various ways in which punters capitalize on their
action. Visit him at on Twitter @robmiech or on Facebook
“Miech, a former sports writer for the Las Vegas Sun, had spent the
last year following gamblers around Las Vegas, talking to
oddsmakers, watching the daily yin and yang of the business. It all
comes together beautifully.”
—Gaming Today on Sports Betting for Winners
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