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Delaware, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon all allowed sports betting, even though it was federally banned in 1992. These four states were allowed to continue offering sports betting due to a grandfather clause – they already offered sports betting and so could continue.

The NCCA has often used rules regarding holding events to make political statements. You can read more about their decision to limit events at ESPN.

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NCAA Limits Event Locations Based on Bets

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Last summer, former basketball player Sammy Villegas was charged with fixing gamers during the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons. Harvey McDougle, a former running back, was also charged on similar counts, but those charges were dropped due to procedural problems. He could be charged again, and other players may also be charged.

None of the current players at Toledo are thought to be involved in the scheme, which took place between 2003 and 2006. Cuomo was a senior during 2003, and he says that he’s the student that initiated the fraud along with 52-year-old Ghazi “Gary” Manni, a grocer from Detroit. He also says that he recruited players to participate.

Cuomo grew up in Ontario and returned to Canada following college. Authorities hope that Cuomo returns to the United States on his own, but their could issue an indictment and extradite him in May if he doesn’t.

The students involved took huge risks for relatively small monetary benefits ($500 – $1000, according to reports), which baffles authorities. Let that be a lesson to all you college students. If you’re going to do stupid things, make sure that the risks don’t outweight the rewards.

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Toledo Ex-RB Admits to Point-Shaving Role

Today’s drinking story comes to us from Hollywood Dave Stann and involves not a small amount of drinking and betting.

Let the story begin:

OK, so this isn’t the most insane drunk story I’ve had but it’s certainly the most recent…

Last week was my buddy Mike’s birthday so a bunch of us went out for drinks in Hermosa Beach.  Mike is a degenerate online poker specialist, and also in attendance was his roommate Melissa who does video interviews for an online poker news site, and another degen gambler Eddie who’s definitely won his fair share of live tournaments.  It would only be a matter of time before the prop betting high jinks started!

We ended up knee-deep in bourbon at an energetic little beachside bar watching an 80’s cover band rock out when the prop bet came to me: we would take turns betting on what one of us thought the truth was of a situation.

For instance, we had one of Mike’s friends write down on a bar napkin how many people he thought Melissa had slept with in her life.  Then the rest of us put up a hundred bucks apiece and made our own guesses as to what he thought the truth was.  The key to this prop bet is that the TRUTH of how many people she had ACTUALLY slept with was totally irrelevant — the only thing that mattered was what Mike’s friend would THINK the truth was.

Continuing with the debaucherous theme of that bet, I guessed how many people the mid-40’s hottie singer of the cover band had slept with while everyone else wagered on the outcome.  Despite what a little hard body she was, I watched her for awhile and decided I thought she was married with a few kids, so I wrote down 17 and watched as everyone guessed super high – Eddie’s 23 won over several ridiculously high numbers.  The night went on with us setting lines on everything from how many people in the bar we thought had incurable STD’s to how many bar patrons our party girl cocktail waitress had gone home with over the years.  Fun, fun, fun!

At the end of the night as we were leaving, I found myself up $100 to birthday boy Mike, who made me do one more bet to give him a shot to break even.  Of course Mike saved the ringer for last – how many people Melissa would think my ex-girlfriend had slept with since our breakup!  No one wants to have to think about that, but obviously Mike was leveraging the emotional scarring there for his own sick purposes and just as he had planned, I guessed low (4) to his pick (6), which ended up being closer to Melissa’s number (9!!).

So just like that, birthday boy was even and I had only the cold comfort of knowing that the actual truth of the situation was something I would thankfully never have to know!

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Hollywood Dave Stann is an actor, television personality, and professional poker player.  He is  known as “The Undisputed Bad Boy of Blackjack” and is considered one of the best blackjack players in the world.  He is also a member of Mensa, excelling in math, and graduated from Kent State with a degree in theater.   Stann is recognizable by his alternative style and flashy prescence at both the blackjack tables and the poker tables.  Stann has amassed more than $150,000 in live poker tournament winnings and plans to take over the world of high stakes poker in the future.

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Weekly Feature: Drinking Stories

Yes, the NBA official accused of gambling on games he refereed has fired back with allegations of NBA game-fixing which, if we were to guess, probably caused a bead or two of sweat to form on the brow of Commissioner David Stern.

The Donaghy–NBA duel isn’t over yet, but in the meantime, laugh along with us as David Letterman gives the Top 10 Signs an NBA Game is Fixed (1m, 28s):

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Donaghy Accuses, Letterman Does a Top 10 on NBA Game-Fixing