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I don't have any particular problems with sports betting (at least, no more problems than I have with any kind of organized gambling). What's repugnant about c
by woodruffw 4y ago
I don't have any particular problems with sports betting (at least, no more problems than I have with any kind of organized gambling).
What's repugnant about cases like these is the tension in interests: these university sports teams are functionally autonomous corporations operating under the legal and reputational cover of academia, all while abusing athletes physically and financially (sometimes to death[1]).
Further "collaborations" between sports betting companies and academic athletics are the logical consequence of these fundamentally corrupt incentives.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_McNair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_McNair
- labster 4y agoSports betting leads to all sorts of crime outside the casinos involving innocent people. Bribes, fixed games, injuring athletes, and doping have more incentives to happen with less scrupulous actors. It’s not hard to imagine a college athlete getting more than his entire scholarship to throw one game. I would have actually voted for the Indian gaming ballot initiative if it didn’t include sports betting this year. I’d just like to keep the social problems of gambling confined to people who actually go to casinos (and their families too, of course, but criminalizing is probably worse).
- cryptonector 4y agoYeah, I don't want to hear another word about how this is amateur sports and that that means that the athletes should not get paid.
- Scaevolus 4y agoDon't forget NCAA arguing that paying athletes would somehow taint the experience (by taking money from the corporations).