re: Temple basketball game against UAB flagged for unusual gambling activity

1 minute ago from Pat"The players must die of covid" Forde

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News: A second mid-Atlantic men’s college basketball program is the subject of an inquiry into unusual wagering.

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Besides a single player being able to heavily influence things, it is also a sport which actually has a lot of action bet-wise.

Part of why the Bama baseball coach got busted is that college baseball has almost no betting action, which meant no one wanted to take any sizable bets on it. (Couldn’t offset enough to even out the action)

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We messed up a really good thing with NIL.

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This has nothing to do with NIL.

Nefarious gambling practices concerning sport events have been a thing for decades.

From the tweet about the topic:

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perhaps, the sports betting industry may have flown a bit too close to the sun with how intertwined it has gotten with sports themselves.

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Well no shite. Did anyone with an IQ over 13 not see this coming?