NCAA Fights Legal Gambling, But Takes Casino Sponsor Money for Betting Sports
By Pete Gunnel
General Online Casino News
The NCAA is rushing around the country lobbying against liberalizing gambling laws and threatening states that consider adopting Internet gaming or sports betting as revenue producers. Yet, the same organization is chock-full of members accepting advertising dollars from casinos and other gambling interests.
The NCAA has long been decried by from within as well as without for its hypocritical ways. The organization is supposed to operate for the benefit of student-athletes, but conducts itself as an aggressive corporation. Players are forbidden under the harshest of penalties from exploiting their fame, yet the NCAA routinely cashes in on the exploits of its slaves...er, students...ok, let's say athletes.
Now, even as the collegiate athletic association tells Delaware it will never host a sanctioned event if the state legalizes sports gambling, schools across the country are happily promoting gambling in their arenas. The NCAA outlook is that it's ok for its members to take gambling money, but nobody else should do so.
Washington State, Arizona State, Arizona, Oregon, and Oregon State all publicize casinos and gambling at arenas and in programs. By the by, Oregon was a state that had legal sports gambling funding education in the state, but was pressured to drop the program by the NCAA. Shooting down educational revenues is an awkward position for an organization of universities.
The University of New Mexico inked a five-year deal with the Route 66 Casino to be the "exclusive gaming sponsor." Perhaps Delaware just needs to make an offer to be the exclusive sports gaming state?
NCAA Fights Legal Gambling, But Takes Casino Sponsor Money for Betting Sports
Monday, April 6, 2009
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