Thursday, April 27, 2023

Sports Betting: What are the Risks for Intercollegiate Athletics?



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The finances of college sports are in peril. Desperate for cash, college athletic departments are embracing sports betting. Many colleges have entered partnerships with sports book companies and some schools receive a payout whenever a student opens an account with the sports book. The threat to college life is at least threefold: (1) the integrity of the competition may be undermined; (2) by most estimates there will be tens of thousands of addictive gamblers in college dormitories; and (3) some college players may be subjected to violence if their team does not perform as expected. What are the dimensions of these threats and how will they impact intercollegiate athletics?

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ANDREW ZIMBALIST, Ph.D., (Moderator) Robert A. Woods Professor Emeritus of Economics, Smith College; President, The Drake Group and member of the Board of Directors of The Drake Group Education Fund. Dr. Zimbalist has consulted in Latin America for the United Nations Development Program, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and numerous companies and, in the sports industry, for players' associations, cities, companies, citizens groups, teams and leagues. He has published several dozen articles and twenty-seven books, including Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-time College Sports (1999), The Economics of Sport, I & II (2001), Unwinding Madness: What Went Wrong with College Sports and How to Fix It (2017) with Gerry Gurney and Donna Lopiano, and Whither College Sports (2021).

BRYAN B. BLAIR, J.D., Vice President and Director of Athletics, The University of Toledo. Mr. Blair formerly served as the Deputy Athletic Director and Chief Operating Officer at Washington State University and Senior Associate Athletic Director at Rice University; at Toledo, the Rockets finished No. 68 in the country in the fall standings of the Learfield Director's Cup, the highest finish of any MAC school and ahead of 21 Power 5 programs and in the classroom and, in the 2022 fall semester, Rocket athletes achieve the best academic performance in Toledo Athletics' history (3.401 grade point average), with 74 achieving President's List honors with a perfect 4.0 GPA, and 302 out of 393 (77%) of all student-athletes making the Honor Roll with at least a 3.0 GPA.

 

 

REBECCA CASSIDY, Ph.D., Professor of Social Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Dr. Cassidy is the author of two monographs about horseracing including Sport of Kings, which was included in The Racing Post's list of best ever books about racing. In 2021 she wrote Vicious Games, an ethnography of the modern commercial gambling industry. She has held several prestigious research awards including an ERC Starting Grant and is currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow working on apples.

DECLAN HILL, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Investigations, University of New Haven. Dr. Hill specializes in the study of organized crime and corruption specifically in international sport: author of The Fix: Organized Crime, and Soccer and The Insider's Guide to Match-Fixing in Football as well as numerous peer-reviewed academic articles on the subject of sports corruption and gambling; former investigative journalist and news presenter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC); his work has also appeared in The New York Times, BBC, PBS Frontline, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Times (London); has won numerous awards for his work, including Amnesty International's Best Human Rights Documentary, and recognition by Play the Game (Denmark) and the Canadian Association of Journalists.       

DARRAGH McGEE, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the University of Bath. Dr. McGee's research examines the relationship between gambling and sport, including how rapid industry expansion and technological innovation has engendered growing concerns about the welfare and wellbeing of young people, including that of elite athletes; recently, he has led a pioneering British Academy/Global Challenges Research Fund project exploring how young people understand the socio-cultural meaning and public health impacts of gambling-related harm in Ghana and Malawi. The findings of his work have featured in a wide range of international media, including The Guardian, WIRED magazine, The Globe and Mail, and CBC The Fifth Estate. In 2020, he was named a BBC New Generation Thinker for his insights on sport, gambling, and global health.

THE HONORABLE TOM McMILLEN, President and Chief Executive Officer of the LEAD1 Association, which represents the athletic directors and programs of the Football Bowl Subdivision; former All-American basketball player at the Univ. of Maryland; member of the 1972 Olympic basketball team that refused to accept a silver medal after its controversial and disputed championship game with the Soviet Union; graduated as valedictorian of his class at the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry; first Rhodes Scholar from the University of Maryland; Bachelor and Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University; played eleven years in the NBA; the first and only active professional athlete to run for Congress; served three consecutive terms from the Fourth District of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

2023 Oak Glen HS Lawsuit

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Damar Hamlin Finally Discloses Cause of His Cardiac Arrest – PJ Media

Damar Hamlin Finally Discloses Cause of His Cardiac Arrest – PJ Media

Damar Hamlin Finally Discloses Cause of Cardiac Arrest: Should We Believe It?

Damar Hamlin Finally Discloses Cause of Cardiac Arrest: Should We Believe It?
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On Tuesday, nearly four months after his unexpected cardiac arrest during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Damar Hamlin announced his comeback to the NFL and disclosed his diagnosis.

"The diagnosis of pretty much what happened to me was basically commotio cordis… commotio cordis is the leading cause of death in youth athletes across all sports," Damar Hamlin said.

Commotio cordis is a lethal disruption of the heart rhythm caused by a blow to the chest, particularly over the heart, at a critical point during the heartbeat cycle.

NEW — Damar Hamlin Announces His Return to the NFL & Reveals His Diagnosis

"The diagnosis of pretty much what happened to me was basically Commotio Cordis…Commotio Cordis is the leading cause of death in youth athletes across all sports." pic.twitter.com/xS5Rmi0FfM

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 19, 2023

Hamlin's return to the NFL is welcome news, but there's a nagging feeling that something is amiss. There was a curious silence surrounding the cause of his mid-game collapse for several months — as if the subject was taboo. In fact, when he was questioned about it, Hamlin was notably evasive.

When asked in a February interview by former NFL player and Good Morning America host Michael Strahan about his unexpected cardiac arrest, Damar Hamlin refused to discuss what caused it.

"You're 24, peak physical condition, could run circles around me right now. How did doctors describe what happened to you?" Strahan asked. It was a reasonable question to ask, especially considering the length of time that had elapsed since the incident. It was natural to anticipate that the doctors would have some sort of explanation or hypothesis by then.

After a pause of approximately 12 seconds, Hamlin replied with hesitation, "That's something I want to stay away from."

How did doctors describe what happened to you?"

"Umm… That's something I want to stay away from."

Really? Why?pic.twitter.com/POzGzfg7yx

— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) February 15, 2023

Hamlin's reluctance to respond to the question was concerning. The prevailing theory immediately following his cardiac arrest was commotio cordis and it would have been prudent for him to dismiss any alternative theories at the time, especially since many experts had challenged that diagnosis after analyzing footage of the play before his collapse. Many believed Hamlin's cardiac arrest was related to myocarditis, a well-known side-effect of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. But the mere suggestion that there could be a connection between Hamlin's vaccination status and his cardiac arrest was dismissed as a conspiracy theory.

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Studies have also shown that the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are more likely to cause myocarditis in young men than natural infection from COVID. Studies suggest that there's anywhere from a 1-in-5,000 to a 1-in-6,000 chance of myocarditis in young men who receive a second dose of an mRNA vaccine.

Why didn't Hamlin put those rumors to bed back in February? Why was he not prepared to reveal the commotio cordis diagnosis at that time? It sure looked like there was another explanation he was unwilling to discuss.

So, it looks like commotio cordis is Hamlin's story, and that's what he and the doctors will stick with. It may very well have been commotio cordis that stopped his heart, but the circumstances leading up to him finally confirming that diagnosis will always leave me wondering if there's another explanation that the public isn't being told.

Matt Margolis is the author of Airborne: How The Liberal Media Weaponized The Coronavirus Against Donald Trump, and the bestselling book The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama, and The Scandalous Presidency of Barack Obama.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

NCAA recruiting violations occurred in Boise State men’s tennis program - NCAA.org

NCAA recruiting violations occurred in Boise State men's tennis program - NCAA.org

NCAA recruiting violations occurred in Boise State men's tennis program

Former coach impermissibly communicated with and recruited student-athletes

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The former Boise State assistant men's tennis coach and former head men's tennis coach committed NCAA violations when the former assistant coach engaged in a series of impermissible recruiting activities, according to an agreement released by the Division I Committee on Infractions. Due to the recruiting violations, the head men's tennis coach violated head coach responsibility legislation by failing to demonstrate that he monitored his assistant coach.

The school, former assistant men's tennis coach and enforcement staff agreed that violations occurred when the former assistant coach communicated with and recruited student-athletes who were not in the NCAA Transfer Portal. His conduct included asking student-athletes enrolled at other NCAA Division I schools to assist him in recruiting prospects to Boise State, personally recruiting prospects to Boise State who were not yet in the Transfer 
Portal and involving Boise State student-athletes in the recruitment of prospects.  

More specifically, over the course of two academic years, the former assistant coach impermissibly communicated with three student-athletes enrolled at other schools, in part, to gain their assistance with recruiting four prospects to Boise State. The former assistant coach contacted them through various means, including by phone, messaging over social media and playing video games. Although the former assistant coach was not recruiting those three student-athletes, none of them was in the Transfer Portal when he contacted them, making the communications impermissible. 

At the request of the former assistant coach, those student-athletes contacted four prospects in an attempt to recruit them to Boise State. One of those prospects was not in the Transfer Portal. The former assistant coach also offered two of the student-athletes financial rewards if they were able to successfully recruit the prospects. However, none of those prospects transferred to the university. 

Further violations occurred when the former assistant coach impermissibly contacted three men's tennis student-athletes from another school — none of whom was in the Transfer Portal — while both programs were in Denver for a tennis tournament. The assistant coach was attempting to recruit two of the student-athletes, and one eventually transferred to Boise State. As a result of the impermissible recruiting contacts, that student-athlete competed in 17 contests while ineligible while at the university.

Additionally, the former assistant men's tennis coach also directed three then-current Boise State men's tennis student-athletes to assist in the recruitment of numerous prospects over three academic years. The student-athletes' recruitment of the prospects was impermissible.

As a result of the assistant coach's conduct, the school, former head men's tennis coach and the enforcement staff agree that the head coach violated the principles of head coach responsibility legislation. Specifically, the former head coach is presumed responsible for the violations and did not rebut the presumption of responsibility that he failed to monitor the assistant coach. 

This case was processed through the negotiated resolution process. The process was used instead of a formal hearing or summary disposition because the university, the involved coaches and the enforcement staff agreed on the violations and the penalties. The Division I Committee on Infractions reviewed the case to determine whether the resolution was in the best interests of the Association and whether the agreed-upon penalties were reasonable. Negotiated resolutions may not be appealed and do not set case precedent for other infractions cases.

The university and the enforcement staff used ranges identified by the Division I membership-approved infractions penalty guidelines to agree upon Level II-standard penalties for the university, Level II-aggravated penalties for the former assistant coach and Level II-mitigated for the former head coach. The decision contains the full list of penalties as approved by the Committee on Infractions, including:

  • Two years of probation.
  • A $5,000 fine.
  • A 12.5% reduction of official paid visits in the men's tennis program during the 2023-24 academic year.
  • A six-week prohibition on unofficial visits in the men's tennis program during the 2023-24 academic year.
  • A six-week prohibition on recruiting communications in the men's tennis program during the 2023-24 academic year.
  • A six-week prohibition on off-campus recruiting contacts in the men's tennis program during the 2023-24 academic year.
  • A three-year show-cause order for the former assistant men's tennis coach. During that period, any NCAA member school employing him must restrict him from any athletically related duties unless it shows cause why the restrictions should not apply.
  • A two-game suspension for the former head men's tennis coach. Any NCAA member school employing him must suspend him from the first two men's tennis regular-season contests of the 2022-23 or 2023-24 seasons. During that period, he must not participate in any coaching activities, including, but not limited to, team travel, practice, video study, recruiting and team meetings.
  • A vacation of all records in which the student-athlete competed while ineligible. The university must provide a written report containing the contests impacted to the NCAA media coordination and statistics staff within 14 days of the public release of the decision. 

Members of the Committee on Infractions are drawn from the NCAA membership and members of the public. The members of the committee who reviewed this case are Joe Novak, former football head coach at Northern Illinois University; Kendra Greene, deputy athletics director and senior woman administrator at North Carolina Central; and Dave Roberts, chief hearing officer for the panel and special advisor to Southern California.



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Sunday, April 16, 2023

Coach charged in Heat Related Death of Student

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