I absolutely HATE sports betting it is a plague and should be banned

No. It’s a set of religious beliefs practiced by over a billion people. But you know that and just wanted to insert a racist ‘joke’.

If I asked whether kosher was a contraction for ‘kill her’, would that be funny also?

 

Yes.

 

Twenty men have been charged in a point-shaving scheme involving more than 39 college basketball players on more than 17 NCAA Division I teams, leading to more than 29 games being fixed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Fifteen of the defendants played college basketball during the 2023-24 and/or 2024-25 seasons, according to the indictment. Some have played this season. Two of the players named in the indictment, Cedquavious Hunter and Dyquavian Short, were sanctioned in November by the NCAA for fixing New Orleans games.

At least two of the defendants, Shane Hennen and Marves Fairley, were also charged in a federal indictment in the Eastern District of New York centered on gambling schemes in the NBA.

Former NBA player Antonio Blakeney was named but not charged in the indictment. The indictment describes Blakeney as being "charged elsewhere."

The scheme, according to the indictment, began around September 2022 and initially was focused on fixing games in the Chinese Basketball Association. The group later targeted college basketball games, offering bribes to college players ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 to compromise games for betting purposes, according to the indictment.

"In placing these wagers on games they had fixed, the defendants defrauded sportsbooks, as well as individual sports bettors, who were all unaware that the defendants had corruptly manipulated the outcome of these games that should have been decided fairly, based on genuine competition and the best efforts of the players," the indictment said.

 

Came to post this. @SamFisher

 

lot more on X

 

someone fixed the ballet.

 

The Sports leagues BEGGED FOR IT.

 

And I'm sure specific millionaire execs are benefitting from it. It's 50% of all commercial time during the games and leagues are actively changing rules around the edges due to it.

For example the NHL recently cracked down on the confidence level a stat keeper needs to call a shot a shot, because counting too many shots affects prop bets. (In the NHL a shot can only be a shot if it would've gone in the net. So if a shot is very slightly angled towards the goal post, it now needs video review scrutiny.)

I'm sure we haven't seen the worst of it yet.

 

When the games get the reputation for being rigged, the market will shrink to the level of betting on Pro Wrestling.

 

Hmm, I don't know. There are a lot of stubborn dumb drunkards out there to prey on.