Legalizing football betting

That's why the Hong Kong government wants to authorize soccer betting in order to minimize the illegal betting, increase tax revenue and promote football. Legalizing football gambling seems to be good proposal. ... Firstly, Legalization of soccer betting is not a means to tackle illegal betting activities. ... Legalization will make soccer betting acceptable. ... To be concluded, I strongly oppose the legalization on soccer betting. ...

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., 47 states including the District of Columbia have legalized gambling. ... This was the first time that the tournament had more bets than the 78 million bet on the Super Bowl. ... One in particular was at a Division I university where student athletes lost 20-30% playing time in a season over betting on professional football and basketball games. ... People like to bet on games they can watch. ... In National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling 5) This could be applied to lotteries, bets, and other forms of gambling. ...

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Recently, websites have been created and advertised that allow individuals to place bets on items such as fantasy football drafts and other various sporting outcomes. However, in the development of these websites that legally allow betting in the United States, online poker for real money remains illegal in most parts of the United States. In the wake of the recent developments of these websites where picking the outcomes of sporting events is considered a skill, online poker should be legalized because research shows that it is a game of skill as well (Hannum and Cabot 1). ... For example, ...

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From the local lottery to football pools at work, gambling has become as much a part of our lives as shopping or eatting with the family. ... New laws were enacted legalizing gambling houses so that states could collect taxes on them. ... The great depression led to a much greater legalization of gambling. ... Legalized gambling was looked upon as a way to fuel the economy. ... Teenage gambling can come in many different forms, from placing a bet on the school's football game to playing video slot machines to betting on a televised sporting event. ...

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Joe Paterno (head football coach at Penn State) and Lou Holtz (head football coach at South Carolina) are the two most notable ones. ... It is because of all the suspensions and firings that congress is lobbying to get a bill passed that would ban betting on all college sports. The H.R. 3575 would "eliminate all legalized forms of gambling on collegiate sports in all 50 states" (Toohey, "Collegiate Sports Betting May End" 1) A report filed to congress in 1988 stated that sports betting legally takes in around $2.4 billion, and as much as $380 billion is spent on illegal sports gambling. (To...

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Nevada generates $2.3 billion a year on legal sports betting , where as, betting on college sports revenue in Nevada accounts for $650 million of the amount. ... In addition, studies have shown that for every dollar bet on sports in Vegas, $100 is bet with bookies and on the Internet. ... If the betting was banned, there's no possibility of it just disappearing. ... McCain and others claim that eliminating legalized gambling in Nevada would be "an essential first step" on stopping the college sports gambling. ... Realistically though, as much as the NCAA wants this legalization...

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