
LAS VEGAS — Todd Fuhrman’s trek to sports-betting prominence began in the passenger seat of his dad’s blue Cadillac, en route to hockey games in Northbrook, Glenview and Park Ridge.
Early those fall Sundays, Todd would pick an NFL team, from this paper’s lines, leaving Mark, a commodities broker, with the other side. Then Mark selected, then Todd, etc. Buck a game. Todd was 8.