Famed horse racing handicapper Andy Beyer followed a simple rule to make millions at multiple race tracks across America.
What Beyer meant was he didn’t play hunches, take tips or waste his money on hopeless long shots. He used charts and the industry’s bible, theBut that flies in the face of what gambling is. It is an exercise in high emotion. Those addicted feel exactly the same as the crackhead taking a pull off his pipe.At this moment in time, we are awash in sports betting. It is ubiquitous. But behind much of the glitzy facade can be misery — lost homes, marriages, jobs.
A first-round draft pick by the Colts from Bloomingburg, Ohio, southwest of Columbus, Schlichter got into trouble his first season in the NFL. It was gambling. A probe showed he placed big bets on at least 10 games during the 1982 season. Former baseball player Pete Rose was in Winnipeg signing autographs at the the Park Theatre today. Saturday, April 26, 2014.For the one-time star, the future was the CFL and the Arena Football League. Mostly there was trouble connected to his gambling addiction and a taste for drugs.
Gambling has become synonymous with sports. Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson have not taken up their rightful places in Cooperstown because of it.
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