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Sports gambling - M T - 05-23-2025
(I sure hope this is an Outside Topic, but with the announcement of the new swim coach, I'm a little less certain)
During the NCAA Women's Golf Championship, the NCAA played PSA (or ads?) about not harassing players because of gambling losses. Interestingly, those all spoke of the harassment after the fact, not harassment with intent to alter the competition.
The Journal of the American Medical Association has Online First emails with various papers, opinions, etc. In today's email, under Medical News, was "The Hidden Health Costs Associated With Legalized Sports Gambling" by Kate Schweitzer (Associate Managing Editor, Medical News, JAMA). It referenced "Growing Health Concern Regarding Gambling Addiction in the Age of Sportsbooks"
Findings in the latter indicates "sportsbooks (physical or online places where individuals can place wagers on the outcomes of sporting events) have expanded from a single state to 38 states, with wagers increasing from $4.9 billion in 2017 to $121.1 billion in 2023. Pre/post analyses revealed substantial national increases [23%] in online searches for gambling addiction after Murphy v National Collegiate Athletic Association, with pronounced increases in states that introduced online sportsbooks."
Among the bits in today's article
Quote:38 states have legal sports betting, and not only through brick-and-mortar sportsbooks. Online operators offer unfettered access to sports betting opportunities. A study coauthored by Ayers found that online bets accounted for 94% of total sports wagers in 2023.
about 1 in 5 US adults personally bet money on sports in some way.
“Among normal gamblers not betting on sports, 5% to 10% demonstrate risky behavior, but for sports betters, we’re seeing in our studies almost double the amount of risk-taking,” he said. The rate of gambling problems is also twice as high among sports betters than other gamblers.
A study in JAMA Pediatrics of Minnesota middle school and high school students in grades 8, 9, and 11—under the legal age for gambling—found that they most commonly bet on sports and games, even though sports betting is not yet legal in the state
Research also associates sports betting with reduced household savings, increased credit card debt, higher bankruptcy rates and debt collections, and more loan delinquencies
Among the states that did include provisions for addressing problematic gambling, the allocated funds were “insufficient in scale,” Ayers said. .... New Hampshire, which dedicated just $100 000 to resources in 2023 despite collecting more than $35 million from sports betters.
Roughly 5 million people in the US meet the criteria for compulsive gambling, according to the National Council on Problem Gambling, but only about 8% seek help.
"...There’s case study evidence that some medications used to treat addictions to alcohol or opioids—naloxone specifically—can help with gambling as well.”
RE: Sports gambling - Giants - 05-23-2025
The biggest issue is gamblers harassing players due to lost bets based upon individual (rather than) team performance. A number of states that allow gambling based on game outcomes prohibit bets based upon individual performance and more are reviewing the status of those kinds of wagers.
RE: Sports gambling - M T - 05-24-2025
I see that there is some consideration of banning gambling on what you mention, but I don't see evidence that this is the "biggest issue".
The best article I've found on the 2023-2024 study by the NCAA was posted in October 2024.
72,000 posts or comments (on athletes' social media) were flagged by software for review (out of 1.2M posts/comments).
The confirmed over 5,000 posts containing abusive, discriminatory or threatening content.
Quote:The study revealed:
- 18% of all abuse was sexual, making it the most prevalent type of abuse used to target male and female student-athletes.
- 12% of all abuse was related to sports betting, with more than 740 instances. As betting markets increased, so did the prevalence of harassment, with 19% rates in men's basketball and football. Some abuse flagged in other categories indicated that the posts were betting-related.
- 10% of abuse consisted of racist content.
- 9% of abuse was homophobic/transphobic.
- 6% of abuse, approximately 380 instances, was violent.
- 80% of the abuse in the study was directed at March Madness student-athletes.
- Women's basketball student-athletes received approximately three times more threats than men's basketball student-athletes.
- Women's basketball student-athletes received approximately three times more threats than men's basketball student-athletes.
I also see a larger number (2,000) attributed to betting-related harassing posts. Perhaps that is for March Madness 2025.
While this abuse is certainly a topic for discussion, my original post was about the health aspect of sports gambling, the addictive behavior in some bettors, and the consequence it brings on the individuals, those around them, and the community (for instance, the need to create and promote more recognition of the situation and work towards helping those individuals.)
RE: Sports gambling - BostonCard - 12-08-2025
A bit more on the gambling-related harassment of players (sorry, probably behind a paywall).
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/12/08/college-campuses-are-at-the-fore-of-americas-sports-betting-boom
Quote:Student-athletes now face a torrent of abuse from losing gamblers. Last year the ncaa recorded 740 instances of harassment directly attributed to sports gambling, with thousands more suspected cases. Charlie Baker, the head of the ncaa and former Republican governor of Massachusetts, has lobbied state governments to ban prop bets on student-athletes, meaning wagers on individual performances, in an effort to relieve these pressure points.
The whole thing stinks to high heaven, but if you grant the article’s premise that “Legalisation has virtues. It has brought a vast illicit gambling economy into the open where it is subject to oversight and taxation.” it is high time to reform the system. Get rid of prop betting, especially anything involving an individual player. Get rid of ads for gambling in NCAA games.
BC
RE: Sports gambling - BostonCard - 12-21-2025
File this one under “things nobody asked for”. Kalshi (the prediction markets platform) is apparently going to allow betting (in the form of a “prediction market”) on whether players enter the portal.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47341610/prediction-market-kalshi-intends-offer-trading-portal
What, I ask, could possibly go wrong?
BC
TreesAndBirds - TreesAndBirds - 01-15-2026
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/47619154/many-college-players-20-charged-point-shaving-scheme
Many US college players and others charged with fixing Chinese and NCAA basketball games. Cant imagine the Chinese will be happy and NBA has invested a lot in China.
***oops, see this was mentioned in another thread***.
RE: Sports gambling - newguy - 01-15-2026
and then, of course, there's Andres Escobar, the Colombian defender who was murdered because of an own goal scored during the 1994 World Cup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Escobar
RE: TreesAndBirds - BostonCard - 01-15-2026
(01-15-2026, 09:52 AM)TreesAndBirds Wrote: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/47619154/many-college-players-20-charged-point-shaving-scheme
Many US college players and others charged with fixing Chinese and NCAA basketball games. Cant imagine the Chinese will be happy and NBA has invested a lot in China.
***oops, see this was mentioned in another thread***.
Also reported in the WSJ (gifted): https://www.wsj.com/sports/basketball/basketball-game-fixing-scandal-6227d65a?st=htbt1H&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Quote: In total, the government alleges that at least 39 players on 17 different Division I teams manipulated about 29 contests in 2024 and 2025 in places such as Moon Township, Pa., and Hattiesburg, Miss. The schools alleged to be involved feature a Big East stalwart (DePaul) and two programs that reached the NCAA tournament last March (Robert Morris and Alabama State). Four of the players charged appeared in games this week, including one who scored 21 points for Kennesaw State as recently as Wednesday night.
Taken together, the charges in Thursday’s indictment offered the latest reminder of how pervasive game-rigging has become in the era of legal sports gambling in America: No level of basketball is safe.
BC
RE: Sports gambling - Mick - 01-22-2026
First defendant in NBA gambling scheme gets two years in prison.
1st defendant sentenced in NBA gambling scheme gets 2 years in prison