Comments on: Widespread Corruption in Sports Gambling: Fact or Fiction? http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/08/20/widespread-corruption-in-sports-gambling-fact-or-fiction/ Prediction Markets, etc. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:13:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris. F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/08/20/widespread-corruption-in-sports-gambling-fact-or-fiction/#comment-16090 Chris. F. Masse Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:14:18 +0000 http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/08/20/widespread-corruption-in-sports-gambling-fact-or-fiction/#comment-16090 Michael Vick loves to see dog fights. The gambling part maybe be marginal. Am I guessing correctly? --- Michael Vick, the star quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, will probably face at least a year in prison while he is in the prime of his N.F.L. career. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/sports/football/21vick.html?ex=1345348800&en=0e150efbbfcdedd5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Michael Vick loves to see dog fights. The gambling part maybe be marginal. Am I guessing correctly?

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Michael Vick, the star quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, will probably face at least a year in prison while he is in the prime of his N.F.L. career.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/sports/football/21vick.html?ex=1345348800&en=0e150efbbfcdedd5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

]]> By: Michael Giberson http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/08/20/widespread-corruption-in-sports-gambling-fact-or-fiction/#comment-16088 Michael Giberson Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:25:04 +0000 http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/08/20/widespread-corruption-in-sports-gambling-fact-or-fiction/#comment-16088 <i>"NFL and NBA players who are sufficiently talented to reliably influence game outcomes are already wealthy and would have little to gain from such conspiracy."</i> So if you were talented and had a promising career and lots of money like Michael Vick, there'd be no way you would want to get involved in gambling on dog fights. Except, he did. So I'm not sure how much to credit the "little to gain" argument. “NFL and NBA players who are sufficiently talented to reliably influence game outcomes are already wealthy and would have little to gain from such conspiracy.”

So if you were talented and had a promising career and lots of money like Michael Vick, there’d be no way you would want to get involved in gambling on dog fights. Except, he did.

So I’m not sure how much to credit the “little to gain” argument.

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