With top-tier pro leagues dealing with a mounting series of gambling-related scandals, it raises the question of what, if anything, can be done to limit future episodes of this nature.The NBA's commissioner recently banned Jontay Porter, recently a member of the Toronto Raptors, from participation in the league for life, after a league probe found he was betting on games.
"Until we do that, I think this could be the tip of the iceberg," said Luke, who believes Canada has been slow to see the full risks that gambling can pose for athletes, at various levels of competition.Sports gambling wasn't broadly legal in much of Canada or the United States until relatively recently. The industry has grown rapidly in the wake of these changes.
Michael Naraine, an associate sports management professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont., agrees: "These are the types of things that were obviously going to come to the forefront with a legal, regulated marketplace."But Naraine sees a need for the Ontario government to do more — in particular, to allocate needed funding for research about sports gambling and education, too.
More than 30 European nations, as well as Australia and Monaco, have signed on to the treaty that aims to clamp down on match-fixing, and work to prevent it from occurring, via co-operation between authorities, sports leagues and gambling operators.
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