As pressure grows on athletes to turn in elite performances, another side of human nature emerges, experts say
proven and punishment was handed out: the NFL issuing a year-long suspension to the Atlanta Falcons receiver Calvin Ridley for laying $1,500 on a Falcons win, a wager thatSmaller competitions once regulated through self-policing have become the focus of television cameras and sponsorship, giving competitors a motive to try to gain an edge.
What’s more, there are fewer taboos around profiting. College amateurs are now free to earn money off their names, images and likenesses. Cryptocurrency became a major sponsor of professional sports – and then, a major liability for the NBA’s Miami Heat and arena naming rights deal with the embattled firm FTX.
With prize money mostly derived from entry fees, professional fishing is bound by the honor code. It’s only because their game is state-regulated that fishermen have the law to back them up.Photograph: Mark Gillispie/AP Even if Runyan and Cominsky only lose their licenses and never fish again, they figure to go down as footnotes in an era when vice became virtue and scammers became kings. This is simply the world we live in now. At best, says Bartlett, parents who are exhausted with scammer culture seeping into sports could spend their money on alternative entertainment for the family.
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