Brandon Link (born February 28, 1963 in Midland, MI) is the inspiration for the movie Two for the Money which stars Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, and Rene Russo. The name of the character in the movie (played by Matthew McConaughey) was changed to Brandon Lang. Unlike the movie character, Link did not have a college football career. Instead he enlisted in the Navy at age eighteen.

Link became involved in the sports-handicapping industry when working for Jim Feist Sports as a scorephone announcer. Occasionally picking games for the handicappers at Jim Fiest, he attracted the attention of a handicapping service in New York City, and ultimately moved there to begin his career.

Years later, Link was caddying at a golf club when he met with the producer who would ultimately get his story optioned. He has an uncredited role as Man Greeting Brandon #1.

Link was a guest analyst on the show "Wager Wars" on Internet-TV site RawVegas.tv, which is hosted by fellow sports-handicapper, Chris Jordan, who is featured on the websites www.BrandonLang.com and www.WhoWillCover.com. Jordan appeared solo on the November 29 Wager Wars College Edition and will continue to do so, as Link no longer appears on the show.

Brandon claims to be a winning sports bettor but that is pure fiction. However visitors to his website have no knowledge of his past history, as his long term statistics have magically disappeared since he went on his current sustained losing streak.

In addition to his current duties, Link is a regular Friday guest on Daily News Live in Philadelphia, PA, on The Junkies airing on 106.7 WJFK in Washington D.C., and on Milwaukee's ESPN Radio 1510 Days/1290 Nights every Thursday morning. He gives his picks for the local teams as well as his "Two for the Money" pick.

External links

Wager Wars

Brandon Lang interview

Brandon Lang maintains a website where sports fans can pay $1,595 in return for every one of his picks for an entire year. Brandon picks a few games each day, and values them anywhere from 5 "dimes" to 100 "dimes", based on his confidence for that game. Each day, Brandon posts to the public his wins/losses from the day before.

Over the course of 2007 we noticed that Brandon was losing very consistently, yet only advertising his big wins and ignoring the fact that he was down hundreds of dimes. In the past he had published his records over different periods of time. For example, his website might have read "Up 200 dimes in the last 300 Days" or "Down 50 dimes in the last 100 days". Eventually he began to lose so often that he no longer posted any long term results at all. If he posted his long term results visitors would see that he has produced nothing but losing results, so he completely stopped posting them.

Instead he started picking and choosing very short term periods where he might be up and only posting those records. The deception and manipulation involved in this website is so unbelievable that we began to track his records meticulously on a daily basis, starting on March 1, 2008. We sincerely regret not tracking his stats over 2007 where we would have seen hundreds of dimes in losses. We will continue to update this record on a weekly basis in order to accurately monitor Lang's failures. We hope that any potential customers will appreciate knowing the truth about his website.

Actual Statistics as of April 8, 2008-

March 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008 : -234.5 Dimes

April 1, 2008 through April 8, 2008: -187 Dimes

Statistics advertised on his Website April 4, 2008 -

" 39 Dimes of Profit Last Week"

"I closed out the sweet sixteen and elite 8 a solid 6-4 overall including a 4-2 run with my top plays. Now I step up and deliver another winning final four and the Friday night preceding it."

"Listen, they only make movies about winners, and that's Me!"

*Statistics and quotations were compiled directly from Brandon's public disclosures at www.BrandonLang.com.