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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich
It is worked into every professional athletes 'morals clause', every training camp they devote time to it, every draft classes new player orientation has time devoted to it.
You do not gamble on sports and you certainly don't bet on your own sport.
Yes, the leagues make loads of money off their associations with gambling corporations. But the players are well compensated.
The competitive integrity of sport is one of the defining aspects of sports.
Once fans get even the hint that something they are watching is not on the 'up and up' it is almost impossible to get that trust back.
Then it turns into WWE
I usually side with players, but I have next to no sympathy for Ridley
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From what I can tell the leagues generally don't ban legal betting on other sports. They tend to only ban on betting on games of their league if not the sport in general.