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Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)

American horse racing announcer & television sports announcer (–)

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Born	Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos ()September 9, Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.
Died	April 21, () (aged&#;77) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Resting place	Union Cemetery Steubenville, Ohio
Nationality	Greek
Other&#;names	James George Snyder, Sr. Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder

James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, – April 21, ), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegasbookmaker. A regular contributor to the CBS program The NFL Today, Snyder predicted the scores of NFL games, which sports bettors used to determine the point spread. In January , Snyder was fired by CBS after he made comments suggesting that breeding practices during slavery had led blacks to become superior athletes.

Early life and career

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Snyder was born in Steubenville, Ohio. According to his New York Times obituary of April 22, , Snyder's family roots were in the village of Tholopotami (Θολoποτάμι), on the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. As a teenager in Ohio, he becam

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Snyder, James ("Jimmy the Greek")

(b. 9 September in Steubenville, Ohio; d. 21 April in Las Vegas, Nevada), sports gambler, handicapper, oddsmaker, public relations director, and television personality who was the most famous sports gambling figure of the twentieth century.

Snyder, born Demetrios Georgos Synodinos, was one of three children of Greek immigrant parents, George and Sultania Synodinos, who operated a small neighborhood grocery store in the tough mill town of Steubenville, Ohio. As a teenager Snyder demonstrated a facility with mathematics and statistics that proved invaluable to his later gambling career. By age fourteen he had found employment as a runner for several of the town's bookmakers and also was working as a youthful professional card and craps dealer. He naturally gravitated toward sports wagering, demonstrating unusual skill at picking winning horses and college football teams. Speaking of his years in wide-open Steubenville, he once joked, "You had to bet to survive. I was twenty-five before I found out gambling was illegal."

Snyder dropped out of high school in at age sixteen to move to Florida, where he earned a living at the racetracks. On 28 March he married Pauline ("Sunny") Miles; they had one daughter and divorced after approx