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Gambling in Sports
Gambling in sports can be a hot topic at times. There have been several elite athletes who have been caught gambling on sports, Pete Rose to mention the most prominent name. Rose would easily be in the hall of fame and probably a manager somewhere if it were not for him betting on baseball. I don't understand this. I personally do not understand why it is a huge deal if players gamble on their own sport. Is there any victim in this crime? Not that I can see. Maybe themselves if they lose a lot of money but what does that matter. Do they gain an unfair advantage by gambling? I don't see how. Now it is one thing to throw a game or to shave points, and that is by no means acceptable and should be harshly punished, but what is wrong with placing a simple bet. In my opinion, if players were placing bets on their own teams, it would make the games better. It would put more at stake and provide even more motivation. People often times say that players who receive huge contracts under perform because they have already gotten paid and have no financial reason to work as hard. That wouldn't be true if they were placing bets on their team. No matter how meaningless the game is, they would put everything they had into the game to try and win the bet. In my opinion, the game doesn't lose any integrity if its players bet on the game, as long as they are gambling in legal ways. If you and I can do it, why can't they. Michael Jordan has had several gambling problems in the past, and one thing that is often said is "he doesn't have a gambling problem, he has a competition problem." I agree with that statement, and what is wrong with making a big deal about it. So what if Pete Rose bet on baseball. He claimed he never bet against his own team, and as long as that is true, it had to have made him even more motivated to win. I know it would provide an extra push for me. Would that be so terrible in sports. I'm not going to quit watching the NFL if they let Peyton Manning bet that his Colts will win by 10. In fact, I would be quite interested to know how the players were betting and how confident they were that their team was going to win. As long as they are always betting for their team (or on a game they weren't involved in) and never against their team. I know that they aren't going to be changing the rules anytime soon if ever at all, and I'm not upset or infuriated about gambling rules. All I'm trying to say is relax about the gambling issues in sports. It isn't a bad thing. It is only looked at negatively because that is how we have been taught to look at it. If you sit down and think about, it really isn't that negative at all.
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Contributor's Note
Another article copied from one of my sports blogs.
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This intel was contributed by Smash King
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