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Originally Posted by darwinbulldog
Or a joke, but who the hell can tell these days?
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I read less as an accusation (my position definitely not accusatory), but more an acknowledgement that the ingredients are in place for some really lucrative potential corruption.
I think one of the main reasons there have not been major sports/pro athlete gambling controversies of late is that these guys are clearly very well compensated, and have everything to lose.
The 1919 White Sox were not. College players have never been. NBA refs are not (at least relative to players). I think that these scams and corruption are more likely to occur when the proper ingredients are there--- underpaid individual, having great personal influence over something worth a lot of money to others, as well as difficult to enforce.