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.

 

these crimes are so stupid because they’re so obvious

Betting $424K for random Kent State to cover the 1st half spread against Buffalo?

$256K on Northern Kentucky to cover the first-half spread against Robert Morris?

You don’t think that’s getting flagged and investigated??

this time it’s not a professional MLB or NBA player committing federal crime for a measly $10K, and it’s broke college athletes instead which is more understandable I guess, but still dumb AF

every time these players are agreeing to throw games, it’s for 1K, 3K, 5K, 10K from the bettors who made way more than that off you doing crime for them…

you’ll have multimillionaires committing crime for $3K

How dumb and desperate are you?

 

I couldn't understand it back when an employee stole $20 out of the register when they were only making $1.85 and hour. It only took 2 or 3 day to EARN IT.

 

The NCAA, toothless as it is, seems hellbent on banning prop bets on college sports, which would be a huge step in the right direction.

Anyways, this is yet another good excuse to post one of my all-time favorite tweets:

 

Relatedly, why didn't the Big BBS Braintrust think of this massive business grift earlier: cellphone app yes/no prediction markets?

https://www.espn.com/college-sports...ulators-suspend-collegiate-prediction-markets

 

This kind of behavior is going to be the final straw that destroys the league if it's allowed to continue

 

And there will still be the same glue eating r****ds who need “definitive proof” the league is rigged

“Why would the owners let them rig games?”

“Why would the owners approve the trade?”

The owners are the ones who pushed for sports betting. As long as the league is as profitable as ever as a whole they are all still making bank.

They dont give a **** about the little thing that fans think should matter. Who wins a championship, who gets who in the draft, where luka gets traded. That **** doesnt matter

 

There is an underlying flaw in Corporate America. It is the overriding interest in short term gain over long term stability. It's tied more to character than finance. And the lack of character shows no sign of a rebound.