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Michael Jordan’s Kids Like to Gamble, but What About Other NCAA Athletes
On August - 27 - 2010
By now everyone has heard that Michael Jordan’s sons, Marcus and Jeffrey, burned through over $50,000 in Las Vegas last weekend. If the two University of Central Florida guards do have gambling problems, at least they have access to the piles of money their father has made over the years. What about other college athletes? How often do they gamble and how much are they wagering?In 2004, the NCAA released the results of their 2003 National Study on Collegiate Sports Wagering and Associated Behaviors.This study was the organization's first comprehensive examination of the gambling tendencies of the student-athletes it oversees. Over 21,000 ...