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College Football Can't Outrun the Sports Betting Boom
Sports betting has gone mainstream, and college athletes are surrounded by opportunities to wager. Coaches say the Brendan Sorsby case should serve as a cautionary tale for every locker room.
Sports gambling scandals are nothing new to college athletics.
There was “The Brooklyn Five” in 1945, the CCNY point-shaving scandal in 1949-50, where players at the City College of New York were manipulating point spreads in exchange for mob bribes. There was the 1979 Boston College case involving famous mobster Henry Hill. Toledo football and basketball were popped for transgressions from 2004-06.
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