Following the US Supreme Court’s May 2018 decision that ruled the federal ban on sports betting was unconstitutional, the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL \u2013 along with the NCAA and other organizations such as the PGA Tour \u2013 said their primary concern was protecting the integrity of their sports.<\/p>\n
Soon after the repeal, the NFL pushed for so-called “integrity fees” \u2013 a small cut of the sports betting handle wagered on professional football. Widespread sports betting, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and others argued, made games more susceptible to outside influences.<\/p>\n
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Though Choi threatened players with death threats, other rogue individuals have long been known to seek a sports betting edge by trying to influence a player, coach, or referee into tilting a game in their favor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said at last month’s Global Gaming Expo that the “Big Four” pro sports leagues in the US don’t deserve a cut of the sports bets placed. He points to Nevada, the state that was exempt from the federal sports betting ban, as evidence that states can, and already do, adequately regulate gambling.<\/p>\n
“Where is the scandal that was borne out of Nevada sports gaming in any one of the leagues?” Christie asked earlier this year. “Where did Nevada sports gaming ever seem like it was incapable of being regulated by the state regulators in Nevada? When I ask people in the federal government this, they can’t come up with one reason.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former sports bettor who was attending college in Massachusetts will spend the next 18 months in prison for threatening at least 45 professional and collegiate athletes between July and December 2017. Addison Choi, now 23-years-old, pleaded guilty in May to sending death threats to the athletes via Instagram posts. At the time, Choi was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":118860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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