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Toledo Gambling Scandal: 99% Funny Business

By Brian GrummellApr 11th 2007 – 12:13AM

Sports betting expert R.J. Bell says there is a 99% certainty that some kind of funny business was going on with Toledo football in 2005.Movements in the betting line are responses to disproportionate amounts of money bet a certain way. During the 2005 Toledo football regular season, lines on their team's games moved two...

This Is Why Legal Gambling Helps

By Chas RichApr 3rd 2007 – 11:34PM

Has it really been 7 years since the last misguided attempts by college coaches and the NCAA to try and ban legal gambling on college sports. Cynically, I expect that the Toledo point shaving scandal that is now blossoming will renew calls for the sort of ban. They will cite the gambling on college sports as being the...

Background on Gambling Scandal

In organised sports, match fixing or sports fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law.

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