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[QUOTE="boba, post: 5004829, member: 1556"]
"One in three high-profile athletes receive abusive messages from individuals with a "betting interest," and more than 540 men's and women's college basketball players received similar abuse, including death threats, during championship tournaments in March, the NCAA said in a release Friday."
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The toothpaste is out and apparently all over the sink too.  It wasn't predicted that this would happen, it was expected.  Not good, very bad.  Just a matter of time when this escalates into the worst thing you can imagine.  Coaches are going to need to deal with this along side the players, and the schools are going to suffer as well.  Not sure what the solution is short of a federal stalking law that imposes severe penalties for [I]seemingly[/I] minor offenses.  A few weeks in a federal pen for sending a text sounds bad but it might deter this behavior and prevent escalation.
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