It is easier to place a bet today than it is to buy cigarettes or a can of beer on any college campus all
over the country.
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Years ago i was on a TV show that Howard Cossell hosted (ABC Sports Beat). The topic was:
Does the media encourage the public to gamble?
Bobby Knight, Indiana basketball coach, said: "A newspaper who
published point spreads should also publish names and addresses of services that render to prostitutes.
They practically have the same legality in every one of our states, and I can't see why one is any better
than the other"
On the same show former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn said: "Anything that
encourages gambling on team sports bothers me.
We all look hypocritical but than why are we putting up
the odds unless we are trying to encourage it"
David Stern, NBA commissioner said: "We don't want the
weeks' grocery money to be bet on the outcome of a particular sporting event"
Humm now the NBA sais we should have gambling on the NBA games what a change !
You would not expect to open your local newspaper and get a price list of illegal drugs for sale; But
that's just about what you can get today when you open your local newspaper to the sports pages all
over the country. True,
you don't see drug prices but you do see lines and point spreads on sporting events.
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