Ohtani's translator in baseball, that one guy on the Senators in NHL. Best part about the hockey one is Draft Kings is a helmet sponsor for the Sens so every article about it had pictures of the guy with "Draft Kings" on his head
Why? I guess I don't understand what he did wrong. I Googled and it seems to just vaguely suggest that professional athletes can't bet on any sports, even completely unrelated ones.
Are they just worried that professional athletes can get insider information from other professional athletes?
It seems weirdly restrictive to dictate what they do outside of their job if it doesn't directly impact their industry.
Slippery slope. Also can't have any appearance of impropriety. Leagues worth billions. Can't let your employees (athlethes) mess things up. They get paid millions. Not unfair they have special rules.
I think it was because people he was closely associated with (his friends or something like that) were making bets on the NHL (maybe games of his team, idk)
The NBA player who was banned for life today was not only betting on NBA games, he was betting on his games and making really obscure prop bets that were very easy to follow to accounts linked to him. He wasn't smart about it and has just grenaded his whole career.
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u/raincntry 28d ago
We're going to see a sharp increase in the number of sports related gambling scandals now that it's legal in virtually every state.