That’s not the case when a bet is a click away, he said.
“What you have to do is say, I know it doesn’t seem like it’s harming you, but here’s how it’s harming your neighbor,” said Litzler.
In Alabama, where the issue of gambling is about to come up in the next session of the state Legislature, Davis, of Alabama Citizens Action Program, said he also talks about gambling as a threat to the integrity of sports.
He pointed to the recent case of Brad Bohannon, the former coach of the University of Alabama baseball team who was fired last year in a betting scandal. This week, the NCAA ruled that Bohannon had told a bettor that the team’s starting pitcher was injured and would miss a game. That led the bettor to try to place a $100,000 bet on the game, according to ESPN.com.
According to the sanction imposed by the NCAA, any team that hires Bohannon as a coach must suspend him for “100% of the baseball regular season for the first five seasons of his employment.”
Davis said that scandal was a sign of things to come.
“It is going to ruin sports,” he said.
This article originally appeared here.
