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Raising a Flag on Colleges’ Sports Gambling Play - Commentary

John R. Thelin, university research professor emeritus of educational policy studies and evaluation at the University of Kentucky, and Eric Thomas Weber, associate professor of educational policy studies and evaluation at the University of Kentucky, writes: When intercollegiate athletics goes from the sports page to the front page, it is big news, but not always good news. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov. 23 article in The New York Times, “How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities.
 
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