The puppies ran up to the girl, their tails all awag.

Often Neil sat in their bothy on winter nights and told Calum about seas he had never seen.

“Hey, mothafucka!” I opened my eyes and looked across the aisles. “Yeh, Luke?” I said, trying to sound like his old asshole buddy.

A more complete analysis would take account of the possibilities that many of those point shaving would have otherwise beaten the spread by a large margin; that some of those agreeing to point shave will accidentally cover the spread; and that yet others will shave too vigorously, losing the game.