MARCH MADNESS the most gambled on event of the year.
By Arnie Wexler
Who knows how many college students are going to bet on these games ? And how many who will place the 1st bet they ever make on one of the games and might become an addicted gambler !
How many athletes will place a bet on a game also. Maybe even some that are playing in the games.!
If you are doing a story on the tournament, you might want to look at betting on this event and the issue of compulsive gambling. CALL ME 954 5015270
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OUR BOOK, GAMBLING ADDICTION AND HOW TO RECOVER FROM IT, " ALL BETS ARE OFF"
BY ARNIE AND SHEILA WEXLER AND STEVE JACOBSON
"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.
When you open your local newspaper to the sports pages all over the country you do see lines and point spreads on sporting events.
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.
Arnie over the years has spoken to many athletes who had a gambling addiction.
Arnie Wexler said "It is easier to gamble than it is to buy cigarettes or a can of beer on college campuses all over the country."
Get the real scoop: Talk to Arnie Wexler who is one of the nation's leading experts on the subject of compulsive gambling and a recovering compulsive gambler himself, who placed his last bet on April 10, 1968. He has been involved in helping compulsive gamblers for the last 49 years. Through the years, Wexler has spoken to more compulsive gamblers than anyone else in America.
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. 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 .
Some years ago, 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" BUT NOW THE NBA WANTS 2 HAVE SPORTS BETTING LEGALIZED JUST GIVE THEM A PIECE OF THE GAMBLERS LOOSES.
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.
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