Arnie has spoken to students who gamble in college, day and night.
They even gamble during class, and it goes on in high school even in
the lunch rooms. According to a Harvard study a few years ago, 4.67
percent of young people have a gambling problem. Today its even higher Experts tell us that
the earlier a person starts to gamble, the greater the risk of them
becoming a compulsive gambler. In another survey, 96 percent of
adult male recovering gamblers stated that they started gambling
before the age of 14 .
When you open your local newspaper to the sports pages all over the
country you do see lines and point spreads on sporting events.
And betting info on t v and radio all day and night
I think the responsible thing to do would be for newspapers to carry a
public service message
Need Help For A Gambling Problem? Call: 1-888 LAST BET
The N C A A should have enough clout to stop something like this on
N C A A games----- if they wanted to !! . But why would they want to ?
"The NCAA and the media are part of the problem," Wexler said. "
...A couple years back the NCAA said it wouldn't credential any
newspaper that carries the lines and odds. In two or three weeks
that story went away very quickly because the NCAA knew they
wouldn't get the hype" for its NCAA basketball tournament
if it started banning media from coverage.
The National Gambling Study Commission said that there
are "5 million compulsive gamblers and 15 million at risk in the U.S"
Forty eight percent of the people who gamble bet on sports.
AND THAT WAS IN 1998 ITS A LOT BIGGER 2 DAY
Some years back , Arnie was on a TV show with Howard Cossell
(ABC Sports Beat). The topic was: Does the media encourage the
public to gamble? Bobby Knight, Indiana University basketball coach
at the time, said: "A newspaper which 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 then why are we putting
up the odds unless we are trying to encourage it?"
David Stern, NBA commissioner said: "We don't want the week's
grocery money to be bet on the outcome of a particular sporting event"
FROM THE BOOK MONEY PLAYERS DAYS AND NIGHTS INSIDE THE NBA
BY ARMEN KETEYIAN AND HARVEY ARATON
ARNIE WEXLER IS QUOTED SAYING ON A NCAA PANEL IN NYC
CALLED "GAMBLING AND COLLEGE SPORTS"
"THE GAMBLING IS GOING ON THE NEXT GENERAL THING THATS
GOING TO HAPPEN IS A MAJOR POINT SHAVING SCANDAL ITS JUST
AROUND THE CORNER GUYS AND WHEN IT HAPPENS YOU ARE GOING
TO SEE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS SAY HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN IN
OUR SCHOOL"
THE NCAA LET ME WRITE 4 ARTICLES ON GAMBLING ADDICTION
OVER THE YEARS FOR THE NCAA NEWS. AND I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN
1 CALL FROM A COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR ,COACH,OR A. D. BUT
MANY CALLS FROM STUDENTS WHO WANTED HELP.
Arnie is available to speak with you on this subject.
Arnie & Sheila Wexler Associates
www.aswexler.com
954-501-5270