by rob.walgate | May 15, 2019 | Gambling Ruins Lives
One Year May 14th, 2018: Will that date be remembered as the day sports in America died? It has been one year since the Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. Over the past year, state legislatures across the country are moving at...
by co119admin | May 3, 2019 | Gambling Ruins Lives
By I. Nelson Rose Published in Gambling and Public Policy: International Perspectives, 1991 Edited by William Eadington and Judy Cornelius On September 6, 1989, the Oregon State Lottery began taking bets on games of the National Football League. Fifty years from now...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: Sault This Week, Ontario, Canada; June 25, 2008. Sault resident “Jane”, not her real name, had learned to recognize the peaks and valleys of her gambling addiction over the years. Or so she believed. Until the night she pulled out of her driveway with the...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: The Kansas City Star, “Gambling Scandals Involving Major Sports Leagues.” Feb. 9, 2008 Former referee Tim Donaghy admitted in federal court last year that he sold inside information to professional gamblers and pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: The Australian, March 3, 2008 TASMANIAN thieves have stolen at least $5.4 million in the past five years to feed a gambling habit. Seventeen robbers have been convicted since 2003 for stealing money that was used to gamble, Supreme Court sentencing figures...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: CBS News, “Women Addicted to Gambling.”, March 9 2006 With the rise of on-line poker, compulsive gambling is becoming an issue of national concern. And it’s not just men who become addictions. The Early Show national correspondent Hattie...
