Sports and Gambling

Use the outline attached to create a research paper about sports and its ties to gambling. Start with a history of sports and gambling, using the specific examples in the outline as a progression: from horse racing to betting and rigging outcomes today, especially since the internet has been invented. Go into depth on each and how these have negatively impacted sport. Talk about how the consequences of betting can effect the fans and the passion of the players in playing fairly.

Sports and gambling

A lot of professional sport are tied to betting from the start (last 150 years)
- Horse racing
- Boxing
- Cock/pit bull fighting
20^th century: Black Sox scandal of 1919
- eight players of the Chicago White Sox banned for life from baseball for intentionally losing games which allowed the Cincinnati Reds to win the World Series
- players were betting on their own games to in large sums of cash
- it ruined baseball by taking bribes
- “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was gambling on games he was playing in and therefore could influence the game to win more money
- baseball was ruined
- US government almost disband the sport and it took for Babe Ruth to ‘reinvent’ baseball
Pete Rose, nicknamed “Charlie Hustle’
- 1989, three years after retiring, he agreed to permanent ineligibility from baseball
  - gambled on baseball games while playing for and managing the Cincinnati Reds – including bets on his own team, the Reds, but not against them
- Late 1980s-1990s: internet has made it a hot story because of global markets
  - Soccer players being bribed to lose games
    - Example – a Chinese man puts a bet on English players, but needs the final score to be 5-1; bribe players to make the score that exactly and win $5 million
  - Detect Far East gambling rings
    - Serbian tennis star, David Savic, banned from playing more matches because he was found guilty of ‘making invitations to another tennis player to fix the outcome’ of matches
      - 1: 6-3
      - 2: 4-6
      - 3: 6-2
    - 2012, today, the biggest sponsors of fútbol teams are the biggest sports betters
    - it’s a truly global phenomena that is difficult to detect and the sports clubs themselves seem to be promoting it
    - fans have to go to a game thinking the players play honestly – not knowing who is going to win – need to know the players are playing honestly
      - otherwise it ruins the game for the spectators themselves