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Because the Supreme Court says you can’t.

Good luck with that.

Less than a year after the Alston decision, and look how the landscape of college sports has changed.

13 yr. NBA official Tim Donaghy was dismissed in the wake of a gambling scandal in 2007.

I have always thought he could play. This makes a lot of sense for the Colts. https://www.stampedeblue.com/2022/3/13/22975371/report-name-been-heard-the-most-at-starting-qb-for-colts-is-raiders-free-agent-marcus-mariota

YES!!!!

I don’t think he’s “garbage.” I think he does not have the mental toughness to be a consistent starting QB in the NFL. He could well become a serviceable backup. … Just not at that price.

How about this: Carson Wentz is the greatest thing since sliced bread. … Like sliced bread, when you first open the package, it’s terrific. Great texture & taste. Everything you could ask for in sliced bread. But then, as time goes by, the bread loses its freshness. The quality declines, until you’ve got just 2 more sandwiches to make, but the bread is all green and moldy. So, it has to be discarded.

So, back to actual football. Amari Cooper to the Browns. He’ll get his $20 million now. Is he worth it … in that offense … with that QB?

That’s sort of what for-profit institutions do, isn’t it?

Exactly.

In addition to the opportunity for a cash grab — which benefits everyone, including players — I think part of the NFL’s reasoning in embracing sports betting is simply bowing to the inevitable. Since the Goodell statement in 2015 quoted in the article, the flow toward public acceptance of gambling has become a tsunami. States legalizing sports betting, online opportunities in abundance, and most importantly, the explosion in popularity of fantasy football, all make gambling on football mainstream today. What was once considered shady, back room, under the table stuff is now family entertainment. Society’s mores changed. The NFL changed correspondingly. What’s the big deal? Why would anyone attribute some sort of nefarious motive to that? Did you know in Indiana, which has a state lottery, state licensed casinos, and legal sports betting, there are also laws on the books against illegal gambling operations. Is enforcement of those laws hypocritical? I don’t hear a lot of people beating that drum.

No idea what his financial situation. But these lawsuits will have 6 figure settlements. Some of those claim some pretty egregious stuff. Those might be more. We’ll never know for sure, because of the confidentiality provisions that will undoubtedly accompany the settlement agreements.

I can’t imagine a set of circumstances where Watson doesn’t do everything in his power to prevent any of these cases from ever seeing the light of day.

Let me add that Watson’s taking the Fifth in his deposition is significant. Texas, like most states, permits an “adverse inference” when a party takes the Fifth in a civil proceeding. That means that if a civil case goes to trial, the jury will be instructed that the defendant invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and, as a result, the jury may assume that if he had answered the questions truthfully, the answers would be unfavorable to his case.

Had he been indicted, I think his career might have been over. Because the burden of proof in a criminal case is so much more exacting than a civil case, a criminal conviction — even a guilty plea as part of an agreement — can be used by the victim as pretty much conclusive evidence in the civil case. But the grand jury’s failure to indict has no legal effect on the civil cases. They will go forward. And waiting at the end of that tunnel is the NFL. Let the depositions begin. And by that I mean the depositions of the claimants. Watson’s deposition was taken yesterday, and all he did was take the Fifth, unsurprisingly.

I don’t think Favre was a back to back MVP award winner in the two years before he was “pushed out.”

Reportedly, Jimmy G. headed to the Saints.

Ask and you shall receive. WARNING: NSFW

Wilson drove that trade. I doubt Wentz was the driver in the Colts’ trade.

You mean, “sounds like just about every other QB in the nfl, who is on a team that sucks.” I bet if you think about it, you’ll come up with the correlation.

It is even easier today for a player to affect the outcome of bets … because there are so many different forms of gambling, e.g., prop bets. Even if he were inclined, Ridley might not be able to influence the outcome of the game. Much easier, though, to influence a prop bet on the QB’s statistics, Ridley’s own statistics, etc.

Quod erat demonstrandum!

Any day that starts with some Latin is going to be a good one. Fot the uninitiated, res ipsa loquitur is a Latin phrase used in law. It means “the thing speaks for itself.”

https://www.si.com/nfl/washingtonfootball/news/washington-commanders-carson-wentz-philadelphia-eagles-indianapolis-colts-trade-leadership-issues-past#gid=ci029bcdcb60002795&pid=mitchell-trubisky “Concerns about Wentz go beyond the playing field. In fact, most don't deny the amount of actual talent the quarterback has. His weakness comes in the form of mental strength, and in his leadership...or lack thereof.”