Leigh Steinberg pens opinion piece asking leagues to 'install stricter guidelines and stronger oversight to protect players.'
Leigh Steinberg has represented Troy Aikman, Manny Ramirez, and Patrick Mahomes, and took to a major publication to raise a red flag on one of the fastest growing industries in the U.S.
“When I started as an agent a half-century ago, the major leagues all considered it so crucial to maintain distance between the worlds of gambling and athletics that they agreed that Las Vegas – then the only place where sports gambling was legal – should not have professional franchises,” Steinberg wrote.
“Let me be clear: I am not against all sports betting. Millions of people do it for enjoyment and potential profit, and let’s face it, humans started gambling long before organized sports existed.” “Leagues must install stricter guidelines and stronger oversight to protect players. They must work to closely monitor betting abnormalities then act quickly when such abnormalities occur," he wrote."And they should negotiate with companies like FanDuel and DraftKings to discourage the lucrative but dangerous prop bets on the performance of an individual player.”
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