ESPN Show E 60

[Legislurker]

Anyone watching this garbage? Its sports betting is the spawn of Satan on ESPN now. Maybe they want to fire Hank Goldberg or give the Gold Sheet that sponsorship fee back from last year. Disgusting moralist hypocritical pigs.

title edited by 4_2_it based on OP's later post

[Legislurker]

WTF, a MILLION kids have a gambling "problem" and need treatment? National Council on Problem Gambling is supplying numbers. We need to light up ESPN's phones tomorrow. DEMAND some corrections and clarifications. I am so [censored] livid right now.

[Jussurreal]

Yet ESPN radio runs ads for tout services, and every sunday the guys pick against the spread. Also, Mike and Mike are always picking games against the spread. Hypocricy is right.

[repulse]

I didn't see the broadcast in question and don't know the context this statistic was used in, but it doesn't strike me as TOO far off, necessarily... 300 million Americans, ~1% of people have gambling problems, a loose definition of "kids" that encompasses all college students. Looks like about a million.

Of course saying "ONE MILLION KIDS (dr. evil finger gesture)!" makes the problem seem a lot bigger than saying "1% of the population". And I have no doubt that the context that it was put in would have made me pretty livid too.

[Legislurker]

In 1999, more than one-fourth of the total population (28%) was enrolled in school. Approximately 8.4 million children were enrolled in nursery school or kindergarten, 32.9 million in elementary school, 15.9 million in high school, and 15.2 million in college or graduate school.


Thats the best number I can get, and they said explicitly one million college students with a severe enough gambling problem to require treatment. Over a million is 8-10% and thats such a gross [censored] lie. I have the flamiest letter to Jeremy SChapp going, I am having reduce the number times I say [censored] and refer to the shame his dead father must feel for such a douchebag of a child before I send it. And the producers at ESPN need to be contacted for such a GROSS lie.
I had to cut out poker tonight im so angry.

[repulse]

Hm... yeah, you're right, that is high, I thought more of our population was in school.

I'm checking out their site now, from their FAQ:
"How widespread is problem gambling in the U.S.?
2 million (1%) of U.S. adults are estimated to meet criteria for pathological gambling in a given year. Another 4-8 million (2-3%) would be considered problem gamblers; that is, they do not meet the full diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling, but meet one of more of the criteria and are experiencing problems due to their gambling behavior. Research also indicates that most adults who choose to gamble are able to do responsibly."

This has just gotta be a fairly loose definition of "problem gambler". If 10 million people in the US are affected, 10% of them could be in college (versus 5% of the total US population being in college).

On the bright side, their front page links to the recent pro-regulation anti-prohibition Bloomberg article: http://www.ncpgambling.org/i4a/pages...ils.cfm?id=102

[Legislurker]

My apologies the show is E 60. Been bombarded with espn360 ads recently so i put it in the title by mistake. If it gets YouTubed, someone set up a link, I want to write out the [censored] said verbatim.

[joes28]

they should follow up with "Was this wager +EV?"

if yes, you dont have a problem.

if no, you might have a problem if you lose.

[Ace0fSpades]

Interesting stuff, I had always been curious about this.