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Bill To Ban Sports Betting on Radio

tbolt909 said:
Pete Rose was banned for life for betting on his own team.
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For betting on Major League Baseball, period. There's a sign in all MLB clubhouses, I understand, that spells this out. If you're managing a team, you can't even bet on a meaningless late season game between mathematically eliminated teams in the other league, the result of which would matter to no one else in that locker room but yourself and wouldn't have any effect on how your team played that day or how you managed the game,

Rose loved playing the horses, and that was fine with MLB. As far as I know, he could have even bet on Japanese league baseball and not gotten into trouble. MLB is only concerned with the integrity of its own operatiion.
 
CTListener said:
For betting on Major League Baseball, period. There's a sign in all MLB clubhouses, I understand, that spells this out. If you're managing a team, you can't even bet on a meaningless late season game between mathematically eliminated teams in the other league, the result of which would matter to no one else in that locker room but yourself and wouldn't have any effect on how your team played that day or how you managed the game,

Rose loved playing the horses, and that was fine with MLB. As far as I know, he could have even bet on Japanese league baseball and not gotten into trouble. MLB is only concerned with the integrity of its own operatiion.
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Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Calvin Ridley was banned from the league for one year for betting on NFL games. That just happened about a year ago.

The NFL and other leagues are doing a coy dance with gambling. They want all the "Fantasy League" stuff and the casino money, but they still want "integrity" of the games. It rings hollow to me...
 
tbolt909 said:
Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Calvin Ridley was banned from the league for one year for betting on NFL games. That just happened about a year ago.

The NFL and other leagues are doing a coy dance with gambling. They want all the "Fantasy League" stuff and the casino money, but they still want "integrity" of the games. It rings hollow to me...
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What's different now than it was when Rose was banned is the legality of sports betting in many states, including those in which professional teams are based. The leagues know that people who normally would have little interest in a particular game -- such as the hypothetical late season matchup of also-rans -- would have a reason to attend that game or watch it on TV or the internet if they had money riding on it, resulting in increased ticket sales and increased attractiveness to advertisers. That's a lot of money to leave on the table by preventing people with no connection to your team, be they fans of your club or strictly gamblers, from engaging in a totally legal activity. In the long run, this is going to become an accepted part of American sports, just as it is in other parts of the world.
 
tbolt909 said:
Not sure what data you used to establish that. 100 years ago, players were paid very little. Even in the 1970s many NFL players had to take jobs in the off-season. It's only in the last 20 years that player salaries have skyrocketed.

Pete Rose was banned for life for betting on his own team.
I'm sure there are many instances of players "shaving points" that have not been exposed. A kicker could miss a field goal on purpose and take home a nice payday from the casinos. That's just one possibility. You already mentioned the referees. It's very naive to think that todays players are more virtuous than decades ago...
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There was a book that came out around 2010 by a guy who claimed that a lot of sports events were fixed. I think the book was called "The Fix Is In!" I heard the guy interviewed on the radio at the time and he was fairly persuasive. But that doesn't mean it's actually happened.

I just found a WSJ review of the book.
www.wsj.com

Book Review: 'The Fix Is In'

Mark Yost reviews "The Fix Is In," Brian Tuohy's survey of the problems that may or may not plague sports in America.
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Speaking of sports betting:
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After Anthony Grant’s emotional speech Tuesday night about the online hate some of his University of Dayton basketball players have been receiving recently, athletic director Neil Sullivan stood in a UD Arena hallway and further amplified and expanded upon his and the coach’s concerns.

In some cases, this wasn’t just hate, it was threats of violence.
And it wasn’t so much from local fans, as it was from gamblers across the nation who lost money."

 
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