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Fantasy Football is Gambling Time Bomb for Players

Giants backup quarterback Tim Hasselbeck remembers all too well the dark cloud that descended over the Boston College football program a decade ago. And it had nothing to do with the fickle New England weather.

"I was in the locker room with guys betting against our team. It's not pretty," says Hasselbeck, who with his older brother Matt, was a member of the 1996 Eagles squad enveloped in the biggest gambling scandal in college football history. "It's an ugly, ugly situation."

The Invisible Social Cost of Problem Gambling

The National Center for Responsible Gaming, the industry's research arm, sponsors an annual convention to counter negative publicity. Last year, a discussion about "Junk Science and Conventional Wisdom" concluded that "it's a myth problem gambling is widespread. It's a myth stats on problem gambling are readily available. It's a myth the known number of problem gamblers is just the tip of the iceberg."

Hooked on Gambling

Walk into Executive Director Michael Osborne's corner office at Baltimore's Habour Pointe Center for compulsive gambling and you'd never know he almost gave up on life.

Pictures of his kids line the wall. Pages of a book in progress are about. And Osborne's busy talking to hotline callers, counseling them on ways to cope.

Yet it wasn't so long ago that Osborne himself was on the other end of the hotline, searching desperately for help for a gambling addiction that got so bad he found himself sitting on a railroad track and hoping a train would run over him.

Trend Story

The sun sits high at 11 a.m. as Andy, a 59-year-old man from New Jersey, signs on to the Internet. He plans to gamble a little while to pass the time. He chooses slots and hits big early but his luck soon runs out. He continues to play, desperately trying to regain his losses. He fails to notice the setting sun or rising moon. By 3 a.m., he?s down four grand. Exhausted, he logs off.

Gambling Gone Broke

After using his online gambling winnings to foot the bill for his car insurance and living expenses, Jesse Chinni was dealt a losing hand when Congress passed legislation this weekend banning the profitable online diversion.

Gamblers adapt to loss of U.S. online sites

NEW YORK (Reuters) - October 3, 2006 - Last weekend, when the U.S. Congress passed a bill making it illegal for banks and credit-card companies to make payments to Internet gambling sites, a legion of online gamblers were sent scrambling to find new ways to place their bets.

The lack of easy access to Internet gaming sites may deter some casual gamblers who have been turned on by the recent explosion of poker but according to online gamblers, and those who help treat gambling as an addiction, people who are hooked will find a way to bet, legally or illegally.