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Oklahoma Sooners quarterback John Mateer has denied sports betting after screenshots of his Venmo account went viral on Monday night.

Mateer’s Venmo history was deleted as of Tuesday, but the alleged transactions made their way through social media. They were from Fall 2022 while he was a freshman at Washington State, and there was one that referenced USC and UCLA.

The words “sports gambling” were used twice in the memo section of the payments.

Mateer issued a statement on Tuesday, saying that he didn’t have anything to do with sports betting.

“The allegations that I once participated in sports gambling are false,” Mateer said on X. “My previous Venmo descriptions did not accurately portray the transactions in question but were instead insid

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