Hyper-competitive people with time and money to spend: Why professional athletes love to gamble
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With per diem money burning a hole in their pockets, they’d hop on charter flights, head to the back of the plane and start shuffling the cards. Usually they’d play poker, sometimes bourre but almost always some sort of card game for money.
There is a new Mendoza line in sports and unlike the one in baseball, which signifies lousy offense, this one is all about winning: Everyone wants the next Fernando Mendoza.
The ongoing issues between the Buffalo Bills and Keon Coleman have taken another twist – and the team’s owner has implied it’s on his former head coach.
After his program’s first-ever title, Curt Cignetti shared the secret sauce of his Indiana football team’s success: Good people, hard work, attention to detail, and a processed approach. Can the Hoosiers maintain that formula under the spotlight of a national championship?
Indiana, 27-21 victors over Miami, has won a football national championship, as improbable a sentence ever typed in American sports history.
The Indiana Hoosiers have gone from college football’s laughing stock to national champions. The Hoosiers survive Miami, 27-21, in an epic College Football Playoff national title game.
The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final – a game to decide the best soccer team on the continent – ended in utter chaos on Sunday as fans caused a huge commotion and players walked off the pitch in protest on an evening which showed the best and very worst of the sport.
One Miami high school is going to be a winner no matter what on Monday night after the College Football Playoff title game.
The Rams and Patriots are moving on to the conference championship round after victories on Sunday in the NFL playoffs
The second weekend of the NFL playoffs are here and the stakes are only getting higher. Follow along with CNN Sports’s live updates and analysis from both games on Saturday.
Buried in point 25 in the federal indictments of more than a dozencollege basketball players for fixing games is really the crux of it: The fixers targeted for their scheme NCAA basketball players for whom the bribe payments would meaningfully supplement or exceed legitimate NIL opportunities.
A sprawling betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games ensnared 26 people, including more than a dozen college basketball players who tried to fix games as recently as last season, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Some might say that it’s too early to predict the future of a nine-year-old sporting sensation and often they would be right to do so.
An amateur tennis player from Sydney, Jordan Smith, struck gold on Wednesday as he walked away with a check worth 1 million Australian dollars ($661,000) after holding his nerve to win the “One Point Slam” ahead of the Australian Open.