Players placing bets on games is taboo. Innumerable sports fans were educated on this point in 1989 when hit king Pete Rose received a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball betting on games while he was a manager.

Or upon watching “Eight Men Out,” the 1988 film about MLB’s Black Sox Scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series.

Or from recent incidents, including Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Calvin Ridley’s suspension in 2022 for a year for betting on NFL games and Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter’s lifetime ban in 2024 for betting on NBA games, giving gamblers confidential information and taking himself out of a game to impact bets.

Rose’s ban was rescinded this year , but not until after he died, with M

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