TIPPING NOT ALLOWED

It's a requirement of any sports expert's pre-write to any major sporting event to offer a forecast. In other words, Woods will win the Open, Federer will win Wimbledon, South Africa the Rugby World Cup and Ricky Hatton will ... well, we'll leave that one for now.
Sports hacks are still sports hacks because they couldn't tip the sun to rise in the east. If they could get things right occasionally, they would be happily retired - to the Seychelles, Bali, or maybe Alicante.
Of the racing tipsters I know, all consistently claim to have insider information from "stable sources". It seemingly never occurs to them to use this knowledge to their own ends
Most of them, in fact, are only a couple of grand of gambling debt away from a kneecapping, thanks to their abuse of credit accounts. And of course their inability to back a winner.
The lesson doesn't seem to have sunk in, judging by the pre-fight punditry in Las Vegas over the weekend. The most high profile (ie the loudest) of the boxing "experts", Colin Hart of The Sun and Steve Bunce of The Independent set all known logic aside and went for Hatton to beat Mayweather. (Frank Keating, the wise old dog, saw sense).
The best excuse you can find for this lunacy - and Hart and Bunce were not alone - is that they got carried away by Hatton's ability to talk a good fight or climbed aboard the high speed bandwagon driven by his fans.
Or maybe they just had money on him.