Point Shaving
I think that it’s a tragedy to see that many collegiate athletes are involved in gambling situations. It’s hard on the athletes too, because they’re not getting paid to play the game so it’s hard to resist thousands of dollars to only win by a few, in cases on point shaving. When I was watching that movie “Blue Chips”, which is all about illegal college betting and buying athletes to come to their school, there was a scene involving the coach and the point guard regarding a point shaving incident three years ago. After the student was harassed by the coach he finally confessed saying, “We won the game, we just didn’t beat the spread. That’s only for those gamblers anyway”. He has a point with what he said but that’
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Blue Chips, Im Unfortunately, , thousands dollars, getting paid,
Approximate Word count = 498
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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