[BostonCard]

This scandal is a canary in the coal mine.  The money is why nobody (leagues, teams, media outlets) wants to get out of the sports betting carousel.  But the money is also why it’s all going to blow up spectacularly.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/4669...-not-cheap

The fact that players and coaches on multimillion-dollar contracts could be susceptible -- Rozier was playing on a four-year, $96.2-million contract -- just adds to the concern. Good luck to college sports, where the NCAA is investigating 13 men's basketball players at six schools in a betting scheme.

Now on Wednesday, the NCAA allowed all of its athletes to legally wager on professional sports.

Hey, what bad could happen?

The NCAA should watch out.  Not so much to protect the players, who, as jacketree notes are adults and entitled to make stupid decisions (though we intervene all the time to protect adults from dumb decisions), but to protect itself.

BC

[BostonCard]

This scandal is a canary in the coal mine.  The money is why nobody (leagues, teams, media outlets) wants to get out of the sports betting carousel.  But the money is also why it’s all going to blow up spectacularly.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/4669...-not-cheap

The fact that players and coaches on multimillion-dollar contracts could be susceptible -- Rozier was playing on a four-year, $96.2-million contract -- just adds to the concern. Good luck to college sports, where the NCAA is investigating 13 men's basketball players at six schools in a betting scheme.

Now on Wednesday, the NCAA allowed all of its athletes to legally wager on professional sports.

Hey, what bad could happen?

The NCAA should watch out.  Not so much to protect the players, who, as jacketree notes are adults and entitled to make stupid decisions (though we intervene all the time to protect adults from dumb decisions), but to protect itself.

BC