For the Derby, Hoffman used both the numbers and the names of the horses — "Pro picks make me insane," she said — to make her prediction.
After Haq broke off her arrangement, Dar Pro never picked up its container; a slime-encrusted box was still sitting out back.
Next thing you know, my bathtub drain clogged and, being an unhandy single head of household with a knack for networking with all manner of service pros, I picked up the phone to call my plumber, who'd previously told me never to use Draino on antique pipes in an old house.
The notion that it takes a pro to pick stocks has made a lot of money for the United States mutual fund industry -- $46.9 billion on stock funds alone last year.
Beason, 28, was a Pro Bowl pick three times, beginning in 2007, but he recently lost his starting job with the Carolina Panthers, not once but twice.
He's a pro at picking up women, he's an (arguably) excellent actor and he's a great friend.
Ever since, the pros' picks have competed against stocks picked by Journal staffers and others flinging darts at their newspaper.
Should you have some mad money and insist on playing, however, we have a list of pros' picks you might try, in hopes you won't be Iridiumed.
Readers who buy into the pros' picks after reading the column make an average of only 8.2% if they hold them for six months, says the author, assistant professor Bing Liang of Case Western Reserve University.
A.F. had a response hen I talked about a poll of pro golfers, 20% picked Barack Obama in 2012.
