How college athletes face social media abuse from gamblers ESPN

How college athletes face social media abuse from gamblers

Damion Bau was appointed TCU coach and was deprived of "Gonzaga" by "Honet Froggs" in the second round. During their season, they lost 84-81 and broke the top 10 teams in the second NCAA tournament.

Bauha's mood for a while was when the team manager built a video reflecting a fans of a gymnasium that delighted about Bauha's thre e-point throw. His Lavique reduced Gonzagi's results from six to three.

Gonzagi won the TCU with about four advantages, and the Bauga laboratories turned over. The people who supported the "Bull Dog" turned from the winner to the loser in 0, 7 seconds. Bach's Instagram was scattered directly from angry panties. He is not alone.

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Five years since the legalized sporting fee was distributed nationwide, the undergraduate students said, in fact, they regularly received an abuse message from a gambler in public networks, and the application and violence of death. Covers the danger of. The FBI intelligence staff told the ESPN, in fact, he was a "growth problem" that takes into account the dangers of players on public networks, sports guidance plan in March, local government regulatory authorities and sports books. The group of heads has reached a discussion of how to overcome this task.

"The university feels the stress of the introduction, and there are many cases of players' abuse." Mark Potter, EPIC Risk Management Distribution Department, and the head of an international group in the battle with gambling in question. I said. "There were more than 200 cases in one laboratory."

Bau has never met a gambling task when he was insulted on a public network until he entered the Gonzagi gate. He answered on Twitter:

I played for the last buzzer 🏾️Proud of my Own Team, I studied to fight to the end. Nobody says a bed 🤷🏾️

-Dam 1 0-bow (@_swaggyd10_) 2023 March 20,

"As a child, everyone who likes sports blows a flute until the end of the game. I just wanted to get my money.

"I basically think that graffiti on Twitter about the research institute players is a crazy thing." I can tell him anything, in fact, I. I believe this will happen because of the fact that he is basically considering that he cannot answer anything. I can't get it.

In 2018, when the Supreme Court postponed the Legalization of the Federal Sportsbetting, just over 1 % of the US population had accessed a legal sportsbook in his state. Five years later, 56 % of the Yankee will live in the jurisdiction of the Beginning of Sportsbetting. However, athletes have long been an abuse in public media, and according to players and experts interviewed by ESPN, the number has increased as sports gambling has spread, especially in male sports. Although it is increasing, women's sports, whose gambling market is excited, is likely to face attacks.

Just 16 days after the sports gambling market broke out in Ohio, on January 17, Daiton Men's Basketball, Anthony Grant, publicly said that the team had faced public media for gamblers.

"Recently, there have been some laws that can change the situation of university sports significantly. 。

According to court materials, in 2019, a 2 3-yea r-old gambler Benjamin Pats sent a direct message to anonymous basketball players at the unnamed Pepperdine University from an anonymous account. "Your whole family is bitten and baked alive. Be careful, you are a dead corpse." According to court materials, Pats had the ability to get angry with losing the bet and affect future movements betting on gambling. He acknowledged one dangerous transmission in the state or foreign commercial transactions, and was sentenced to 36 months of suspension.

TCU's guard, Damion Bo, received an aggressive message from the players after the score changed with a thre e-point shot against Gonzaga. Justin Tafoya/NCAA PHOTOS Via Getty Images

Farman's men's basketball player said that he was receiving aggressive messages in the "always" public media, including the victory after "monitoring the diffusion" on the condition of anonymous. According to his email, when the game is broadcast nationwide, the abusive language will increase.

"Everyone is the worst, everything has failed,", "I lost a lot of things and got a lot of money, so I couldn't do anything alone,", "Your mother should have swallow you." He said that a message was much worse than other messages. "Honestly, it's not too much time yet. Honestly, it's not too much time. Some people have been gambling for a long time, but now that it has been legalized and has increased further. I'm in. "

Adam Flagler, a black lawyer belonging to the Bayler's team, said the aggressive direct message received on Instagram often contained racist comments, including the characters of "N".

"I'm proud that I had to deal with a hatred message, but that's the reality," Fragler said in an interview with ESPN. "I've been aiming for my life. Almost everyone told me that I wouldn't be able to play basketball again, and my mother was told. Anything.

According to Fragler's email, his wife deleted most messages, but he included racist remarks and shared what ended with the sentence, "Dying, fucking bastard." 。

On March 7, about 125 physical education officials, including universities, local gambling regulations, and sports clubs, gathered to discuss ways to compete with similar harassment.

The time conference began with a laughing story that a west coast conference basketball game was backed up by the late free throw, which should have been able to cover a tw o-digit point difference. The security he played because he lost the game, later, a person who was designated as a gambler by the authorities told me about the life on a public network.

Gloria Nevales, the WCC commissioner at the time, said the ESPN said that after being informed of this dangers, the conference was "strictly alert." According to a US. Neveres email, the FBI searched for the villain on the east coast and met directly.

The moon is the biggest sports betting event in one year. According to recent surveys, men's tournaments are betting $ 15. 5 billion. Michael Maco/ San Francisco Chronicle VIA AP

"Currently, Nevales, which is regarded as a Mountain West Conference Commissioner, told ESPN in the excuse to eliminate the confrontation.

US. Integrity President Matt Holt said that intensifying conflicts had triggered a telephone conference. According to Integrity, we had to hold a telephone conference from the growing conflict, and we had to realize that this was a rare problem that linked all aspects of the sports and gambling industries.

"A person who harasses student athletes based on gambling is a pale symptom of gambling problems, and does not continue to actively participate in legal gambling sites, but seek support. It will follow his footprints, "says Casey Clark, a senior vice chairman of the American gaming association, a leading casino industry based in Washington.

Keith White, Secretar y-General of the State Affairs Council about the job of gambling, in fact, but not all people who send insults to athletes on public networks have gambling problems. I am crossing. "

"Most people with gambling problems are still suffering from drug addiction and mental illness," said White. "All this baggage is connected, and the public network is promoted by people from the sports-bank society that is also promoted as well as civilization."

Holt has stated that the Union will actually create a regional group and call a member of the Diet to take action on the issue. Ohio is examining the criteria for gamblers, who have been convicted of harassment of athletes, to bet in a official sportsbook in the state. This year, including the expression of Deuton Grant coach Governor Ogio Debine, a lon g-standing flyers fan, a state budget sent to players related to the glorious fees, this year, the player's address is dangerous in West Virginia. The law aimed at fighting was also passed.

"You don't understand why people in the background are actually doing it for their resources. Like someone riding a horse," Matt Schuler, an executive director of the Casino Management Committee of the Casino Management Committee, said.

According to the FBI's view, the resentment in the public network connects the dangers of the "prompt danger of life" or the "player's supporters and their families".

"When these and other moments are observed, the border between criticism and illegal and illegal begins," said the FBI special information officer for ESPN's Beto Kilog and monitoring.

In January, Dirty Dueton Men's Basketball Team Anthony Grant has announced the opposition to the players who send aggressive messages. "I'm angry if there are people who do anything for themselves, attack the boys and pursue their personal goals," he said. Erica Denhov/ICON SPORTSWIRE Via Getty Images

In the past five years, the rate has become huge with all the revisions in South American sports. There are currently legal betting brands in 30 and three states, and it is important for sportsbooks to grow their own ads. In 2019, the Sports Book brand spent $ 21 to $ 21 for national television advertising in the first complete year of the expansion of regulated sports betting. According to ISPOT, which is familiar with television advertising and viewers, this figure rose to $ 314. 6 million in 2022.

NCAA is more distance from bookmakers than the professional sports league, and is forbidden to advertise in sportsbooks during the broadcast. He also encourages Division I's universities to place mental health resources on campus, and encourage athletes abused on social media to consult their coaches. However, this high school is still feeling the influence of a new situation.

Connor McFerry, a senior lawyer who plays under the founded coach of Fran Mcafei from Iowa, is a spiritual athlete in cooperation with SPORTRADAR, an international sports data integrity company. I try to pay attention to my health. He rely on psychology experts and definitely helps overcoming abuse on public networks. "Abuse is common." It's becoming more and more common in the last two years. "

The SPORTRADAR survey team, led by former British Army's former information officer, has tracked the vandalism on England's public network and has been inquiring the law enforcement agencies. The group is trying to solve the problem in the United States, but government officials have pointed out the difference in rhetoric.

According to Jim Brown, a former NCAA bureaucrat and currently head of SPORTRADAR's athlete integrity and wellness service in North America, abuse on public networks in the gambling market, which has developed more internationally than South America. It rarely affects gambling.

"Internationally, harassment by online sports betting has not spread." It's strange why this is happening in North America. "

Experts believe that the gambler's new tide cannot withstand the mental turmoil caused by gambling, and may rely on insulting athletes on public networks in the meantime. "This is not always a new development, but with the rise of the gambling market, the reality will continue to worsen," Potter says.

Contributed by ESPN reporter Jeff Bolzero and free journalist Olivia Robinson.

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