[Mick]

and collegiate athletes implicated in the most recent arrests.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc...258648007/

Who could have possibly foreseen this?

BC

A friend of mine is a sports agent who also represents entertainers. I once casually opined that it must be difficult to constantly deal with gigantic egos, and I asked him which were worse, the athletes or the entertainers...he said "the athletes, easily. The entertainers weren't the cool kids growing up, they were the glee club and theater kids. The star athletes, however, have been catered to their entire lives. Not only are their egos outsized, but they rarely deal with failure or resistance."

If you have that kind of mentality, then you think you can do just about anything and get away with it. So, to your point, the gambling-related arrests of athletes don't surprise me much.

[Mick]

and collegiate athletes implicated in the most recent arrests.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc...258648007/

Who could have possibly foreseen this?

BC

A friend of mine is a sports agent who also represents entertainers. I once casually opined that it must be difficult to constantly deal with gigantic egos, and I asked him which were worse, the athletes or the entertainers...he said "the athletes, easily. The entertainers weren't the cool kids growing up, they were the glee club and theater kids. The star athletes, however, have been catered to their entire lives. Not only are their egos outsized, but they rarely deal with failure or resistance."

If you have that kind of mentality, then you think you can do just about anything and get away with it. So, to your point, the gambling-related arrests of athletes don't surprise me much.