There's a headline for you. No substance behind it. Am I on ESPN all of a sudden?
The kids have their smart phones out 24/7 and they need to be engaged with something. Professional players are paid enough that the mob types don't have an in, but the prop bets offer some opportunity there.
And then you have college sports and too many ways …
There's a headline for you. No substance behind it. Am I on ESPN all of a sudden?
The kids have their smart phones out 24/7 and they need to be engaged with something. Professional players are paid enough that the mob types don't have an in, but the prop bets offer some opportunity there.
And then you have college sports and too many ways to pay the athletes without any kind of regulation.
So this is a story, undoubtedly. But far more complex than a click-bait headline and a get-off-my-lawn argument.
Pro leagues, universities and even the books themselves subscribe to services that try and detect gambling patterns that indicate potential corruption. This is an important check on the system. You can't just pay a player and rake in millions.
As for Tyrese Haliburton's whine - the man's about to start on a $204 million contract extension. I don't begrudge him the money, but I simply can't feel sympathy if it upsets him how the revenue is generated to pay him.
Ohtani just signed a guaranteed $700 million deal. Do you really want to argue that he's fixing games? You hedged that, but it's still the introduction to that paragraph.
This is entertainment in the '20s. It's evolving. Remember that bookies - professional or illegal - make money when they can keep betting balanced enough so that their take comes almost entirely from the juice.
There's a headline for you. No substance behind it. Am I on ESPN all of a sudden?
The kids have their smart phones out 24/7 and they need to be engaged with something. Professional players are paid enough that the mob types don't have an in, but the prop bets offer some opportunity there.
And then you have college sports and too many ways to pay the athletes without any kind of regulation.
So this is a story, undoubtedly. But far more complex than a click-bait headline and a get-off-my-lawn argument.
Pro leagues, universities and even the books themselves subscribe to services that try and detect gambling patterns that indicate potential corruption. This is an important check on the system. You can't just pay a player and rake in millions.
As for Tyrese Haliburton's whine - the man's about to start on a $204 million contract extension. I don't begrudge him the money, but I simply can't feel sympathy if it upsets him how the revenue is generated to pay him.
Ohtani just signed a guaranteed $700 million deal. Do you really want to argue that he's fixing games? You hedged that, but it's still the introduction to that paragraph.
This is entertainment in the '20s. It's evolving. Remember that bookies - professional or illegal - make money when they can keep betting balanced enough so that their take comes almost entirely from the juice.