Billy Ray Valentine aka YOBABY grew up a wholesome, clean-cut Midwestern kid in Omaha, Nebraska becoming a sports freak whether playing or watching. This lifetime Cornhusker enrolled at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, but after 3 ½ College years of wine, women and song, he decided to take a break (lost tuition gambling) to sell Life Insurance. That lame-ass decision along with the winter’s bitter cold (and people) drove him to drink…I mean move to the Valley of the Sun in Phoenix, Arizona.

He finished his BS in Marketing (and BS) with a Theater minor at Arizona State University where he started acting and writing for The Farce Side Comedy Troupe. Taking his passion professionally from Phoenix to San Diego to Los Angeles to Costa Rica obviously tainted this once pure specimen. The upside to you, the reader, is a lifetime of sports knowledge and gambling intermingled with single debauchery in a raw form attitude. If you read him at Bet US, you know to take the advice he shoots at his new home, BookMaker.