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00:00But let's get started with the big sports betting story of the day, and then we'll get to the big
00:03sports story of the day, which involves the Miami Dolphins. First, let's start off with
00:07Calci, the company that I'm sure you're familiar with if you watch this show or into sports betting
00:11at all. Calci, the prediction market company, has decided they will continue to operate contracts in
00:16the state of New York, even while a judge deliberates on an injunction and temporary
00:21restraining order in the prediction market company. If Calci wins this, they should be
00:25able to operate across the country. If they lose this, you can probably expect every other state
00:30in the United States to also process a temporary injunction. We'll see what happens with Calci
00:36down the line in the future. Also, the NCAA made a big announcement on Thursday. They're going to
00:40implement player availability reports for the upcoming NCAA tournament in men's and women's
00:45basketball. That's coming up soon. Teams will submit their availability reports to the NCAA the
00:51night before its games. And again, two hours before tip-off, similar to the NBA. So if you bet
00:56on college basketball, this will at least give you some insight as to who is in and who is out in
01:01college hoops coming up this upcoming season. Big news for YouTube TV. If you switched over to YouTube
01:08like many people have over the last couple of years, as of right now, you will not be able to
01:13watch college football tomorrow on ESPN. What is going on? Disney programming, including ESPN,
01:18ABC, and FX were pulled from the YouTube TV platform as they have not settled on a new
01:26contract negotiation. How about that? YouTube TV says despite its best efforts, it wasn't able to
01:31reach a fair deal. So those of you who have YouTube TV, you're going to head on over to the app or
01:36somewhere else to watch your college football tomorrow. Could this even extend to Monday night
01:40football? Who knows? Big news out of the NFL. The Miami Dolphins, of course, got crushed yesterday by
01:47the Baltimore Ravens. But the biggest story is today because they parted ways with their general
01:51manager, Chris Greer, who's been with the Dolphins since the year 2000. Yes, it's been that
01:56long. They mutually agreed to part ways. Make no mistake about it. This is because the Dolphins are
02:01one of the worst teams in the NFL. And that speaks to their effort last night. 28-6. Lamar Jackson,
02:08for the first time in a month, goes on a football field. It looks like he never missed any time.
02:11We do four touchdown passes. Baltimore wins the game 28-6. Naturally, this was the Ravens show in
02:19Miami. Lamar threw two touchdown passes to Mark Andrews. That was a big part of their offense
02:24yesterday. Here is John Harbaugh on the return of LJ. I said, it's been a long journey, man. It's
02:30been a hard road, you know, and not just the 30 days, but even before that, you know, and I'm proud
02:38of him. I'm proud of the way he came out and played, you know, and proud of the way Tyler
02:42played last week. Both of those two guys played well. I think T. Martin deserves a lot of credit.
02:46You know, he did a great job with those guys and Monk and the offensive coaches. I thought
02:50the game plan, I thought what we've done with the offense the last two weeks has been really,
02:54really, really good, really, really excellent. So we got to keep building off that.
03:00I just wanted to put points on the board. You know, I didn't want to start off too slow,
03:04you know, after that play happened, I was ready to go. It kind of tipped me off a little
03:08bit. How much did your scramble the first drive of the second half and you kind of took off
03:13on that third down? How much did that kind of help get you guys going? You know, I actually
03:18thought that was a lineman that was chasing me. That's why I wasn't really going. When
03:21I found out it was a linebacker, I'm like, I should have took off for real. But I feel like
03:26it helped out a little bit, you know, got us going. And I think we scored, we capitalized,
03:30scored another touchdown after. Yeah.
03:32Meanwhile, Mike McDaniel will be the coach of the Dolphins the rest of the season,
03:38according to ESPN. And then we'll see what happens after that. As far as last night's
03:41game is concerned, McDaniel, as he has been all season long, still looking for answers.
03:48Disappointing. And unfortunately, we're gonna have to sit on that disappointment for 10 days.
03:54I know the locker room would like to go play another Thursday night game in four days to
03:59get this bad taste out of their mouth. But these are the things that will constantly
04:07occur in the National Football League. You won't like the results if you have those major elements.
04:17Minus in the red zone and minus in turnovers. It's gonna be a long day.
04:22This isn't a game where, you know, we're discouraged. It's one of those games where you wish you
04:30you could have done, you know, more or, or whatever you could to help the guys go out there and execute
04:36the way we wanted to execute offensively. I think the defense gave us a great opportunity,
04:41you know, in the first half, and then in the second half as well with crucial third down stops,
04:47giving us the ball back, giving us an opportunity. And as I've said prior, those are times where we
04:53got to capitalize on those.
04:55Meanwhile, the Arizona Cardinals look as though they will have their starting quarterback on Monday
05:01night. That's more of a fantasy football discussion and betting discussion. Honestly,
05:05Murray missed the last two games because of a foot injury. So you can expect to potentially see him
05:09Monday. Pukunakua also says he will play Sunday against the Saints. Cam Hayward of the Steelers
05:15speaking out, by the way, yesterday, they gave up 33 points in week seven. Hayward says he challenged
05:20everybody on the defense to be better. We'll see if that helps the Steelers. As of now, they've been
05:25one of the worst defenses in the NFL and also LSU and Scott Woodward. Their athletic director decided
05:30to part ways on Thursday. The governor of Louisiana said he wouldn't be making the decision on the next
05:34head coach. And the governor was right. Well, we were all wrong about the World Series. Nobody thought
05:40the Toronto Blue Jays would win this thing, but they are on the precipice of doing so. And they'll do it
05:45tonight as an underdog if they get it done. Yoshinobu Yamamoto starts for LA. They're minus 142 tonight
05:51in Toronto. The total is seven and a half. George Springer is expected to play for the Blue Jays,
05:57who have been fantastic this postseason. So we'll see if they wrap it up tonight. If not,
06:03we got a game seven coming up on Saturday night. That should be exciting. All right. In the NBA last
06:08night, would you believe the San Antonio Spurs with all those championships with Duncan and Robinson
06:13and Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, they were never five and oh in the history of the NBA? Wow. Well,
06:18they are now. They beat the Heat last night, 107 to 101. Favorite to win the MVP right now,
06:24Victor Wembayama, 27 points, 18 rebounds, six of steals and five blocks. And they end up beating
06:30the Miami Heat, Eric Spolstra, after the game disappointed in the fourth quarter as a couple of
06:35possessions did not go their way. Bottom line is, you know, we were kind of uneven all night long,
06:40but there were two key possessions there of going down the stretch where they got offensive
06:45rebounds, you know, and then both those possessions end up in open threes. If we secure those rebounds,
06:52I just, my experience tells me that the game would have felt a little bit different, you know,
06:57those last two minutes. So regardless of how you get there, it's about making winning plays,
07:03you know, going down the stretch and there's those couple winning plays and, you know, one or two
07:11other possessions, we could have gotten stops with another rotation, another effort. And then you just
07:16grind it and you come away, you know, with a win when you're not playing well.
07:21All right, let's get now to the rest of the NBA. The Bucks beat the Warriors 120 to 110.
07:28Ryan Rollins was the story. 32 points on five of seven free throws. Steph Curry's streak of 57
07:36straight free throws came to an end. Here is Steve Kerr on the victory.
07:41It looked, it looked to me like fatigue, you know, mental, physical fatigue. It did not look like our
07:47team out there. Our spacing was bad. You know, I just, it didn't feel like we had our usual pop.
07:54And, um, and I, I thought Milwaukee was brilliant. I mean, they, you know, they made 19 threes. They
08:00made one tough one after another down the stretch. Um, but we let them hang around for, for too long.
08:07And that was the problem. And, you know, it's what we talked about before the game. Anytime a team
08:13plays without its star, you know, you know, a team is going to, uh, be out there with nothing to lose,
08:20firing shots. Um, a lot of guys getting extra minutes, feeling good. And, um, I thought they
08:26did a fantastic job. Welcome back to news. We're here on sports grid. Sam McQuillan is with us from
08:31legal sports report here on this Friday to dive into some of the latest controversies and sports
08:36betting, man. It's been a busy week for controversies. Uh, all right, Sam. So let's
08:40get started here. The NBA had its, its big scandal. Hopefully this is the end of those,
08:45although still TBD, of course, this is, these are humans. This is sports and there's money involved,
08:50but a U S congressman is getting involved here. And if Congress starts getting involved and watch
08:58dogging a little bit more of the sports betting, that means these professional leagues are going
09:01to have to be on notice more than they want to be. Aren't they? Yeah, I think, uh, that's always
09:08been a theme, not just in sports betting, but sports in general. I've always kind of, the sentiment
09:12has always been Congress telling sports leagues, listen, you don't want us to police you because
09:17we're going to come in and put like serious guardrails that you don't want to do. You should
09:21be taking care of the stuff yourself. It was the same with NIL, I think, which the NCAA had to deal
09:25with in its own way. Uh, and it's been kind of the same with sports betting now, um, where, when there
09:31are national scandals and when, you know, the, you know, international news is picking up this kind of
09:36stuff, Congress kind of turns their head and is like, all right, well, it doesn't seem like you
09:40haven't figured out, even though maybe you're telling us the system is working like it's supposed
09:43to. Uh, you had Congressman Paul Tonko this week, right? Seven letters to, uh, different, uh, major
09:50league sports commissioners, uh, essentially telling them you need to get behind this bill that I have
09:56called the safe act, which has wide sweeping, um, you know, protections and rules and restrictions
10:02for sports books and sports betting. A lot of things that the leagues and, uh, the sports books
10:07themselves probably wouldn't love to adopt, but he's telling them, you guys have to support this
10:12bill and get behind these guardrails or next time that the scandal drops, it's really on you and
10:17it's your fault because you didn't embrace this stuff. Now, this is the safe act bill, which he
10:22reintroduced, uh, earlier this year in March. He's actually been pushing this bill for several years
10:27and it would do a sweeping things like preventing sports betting ads during live games. That's, you know,
10:33at arenas that's on TV, it would prevent programming themselves from pushing bonus bets. So, you know,
10:39if you watch any of the, you know, pre pre-game pre-show or even mid-game, uh, sports programs,
10:45they're always talking about some sort of bonus offer or odds boost, something like that. And even
10:49more importantly for the industry, which is a real concern is banning the use of artificial intelligence
10:54to tailor bets that, uh, customers get based off their betting habits and to create and introduce
11:01new types of bets. So AI has been a huge driver of sports books, kind of updating their tech and
11:07really becoming more efficient and squeezing more profitability out of their customers.
11:11The American gaming association has already come out several times and said that this is really
11:15something they don't want. So I think this is a case of where if you have this stuff come to light
11:19with these betting scandals and more, you know, bad news, so to speak, the pressure kind of to not
11:25have these things, uh, becomes even harder to face from a public perspective. And in Tonko's case,
11:30I think he's kind of taking advantage of, oh, there are these huge scandals. I've wanted this
11:34bill passed for a long time. Maybe now I can curry public support. And that's why he wrote these
11:40letters to the commissioners, basically telling them next time something like this happens,
11:43you take all the blame unless you get on board with what I want.
11:48Well, we'll see if Congress decides to jump more in. I'm still more curious how they're going to
11:53treat prediction markets, at least for the time being, but I guess they got both stories to deal with.
11:56They got to pick one. Uh, all right, let's deal with this next story here. The NCAA is adding some
12:02availability reports to college basketball, Sam. This will be crucial, of course, not just for the
12:07regular season, but also the NCAA tournament. And it does make more sense as, uh, you know,
12:11sports betting becomes more prevalent. The NCAA tournament outside of the NFL is the most bet on
12:16event, uh, each and every year. And so incoming for that, similar to the NBA, check in the night before
12:22check in the day of the game, give you a better idea as to who's in and who's out.
12:27Yeah, this move is kind of the first, uh, movement towards bringing the NCAA more in line with
12:34what, uh, professional sports like the NFL and NBA do, where they have these mandatory injury
12:39reports that drop at a certain time every day, uh, that, you know, say whether a player is going to
12:44play, whether they're questionable or not. And that's regarded as the public information. That's
12:48when the lines typically move. If there is a huge line movement kind of before the, that information
12:53drops, it kind of sets off red flags that maybe somebody got insider information that, uh, you
12:58know, we didn't know about publicly. And then you can, you know, track it down like they did with the,
13:02the NBA betting scandals. You had inside info on quieter health, the line moved tremendously, uh,
13:07on one of the Lakers bucks games. And then, you know, because that wasn't public info, they were able to
13:11track it. The NCAA has never had that mandatory. They're moved this week, uh, announcing that
13:17they're going to have this being mandatory for March Madness just to begin with. That's the men's
13:21in college, uh, uh, men's and women's college basketball tournaments, uh, for division one,
13:27where you're going to have to list if a player is questionable or out before the game. Uh, it comes
13:32obviously in the wake of all these betting scandals and the tremendous pressure. I think it's just
13:36another move that the NCAA is trying to do to, you know, not only safeguard game integrity, but also,
13:41you know, uh, help college athletes kind of fight harassment. We know college athletes really get
13:46harassed a lot when it comes to these kinds of things. Player props have been a huge increased
13:51focus for college sports as well. The NCAA president has been lobbying every state to ban player props
13:57on college athletes because it kind of, he says, induces them, you know, to maybe throw a game or
14:03manipulate their performance a little differently. So it's starting off with March Madness. NCAA says
14:08they're going to monitor and see how it works in March Madness and potentially expand it to other
14:13college tournaments. After that, uh, last year, actually the sec and big 10 were the first
14:18conferences to move for the mandatory injury reporting, which they've been doing for football.
14:22So it's slowly starting to spread in college athletics. And I think the more that you, you
14:26know, obviously see public pressure put on them by congressmen, by whoever they're going to start to
14:31do more moves like this. And I think it's a good thing overall to have, you know, more of this
14:35mandatory reporting and a uniform thing, especially when you talk about college app, uh, sports being a lot
14:41different than it was back in the days of amateurism. You know, these are high profile people. People
14:46are easily accessible on social media, people who make lots of money themselves. So I think it's a
14:50good thing. I'd love to see the NCAA expand it to other sports, but, uh, that's going to come after
14:55March Madness. That'll be kind of their pilot program, uh, at least according to the NCAA.
14:59That was starting off is, is definitely good with this. And I'm curious to see how it works,
15:03as you mentioned for the tournament, because some, every once in a while, there's like a key injury
15:07going into this. Now we'll get a little bit more insight right before it begins. Okay. Insight now
15:12to sports books, Sam, for the NFL season. Now I don't have all the data here. You do. So I didn't
15:19really, you know, dive too far into it. So here's what I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess that the
15:25books are having a better season than they had last year, but still overall, another shockingly
15:33losing season for them, at least from what I see in the results, that's my assessment. I still
15:37think it's not going well for them because again, the favorites are winning, but I think we have seen
15:42a little bit more deviation last year was just across the board, like out of 18 weeks, 17 weeks,
15:47you had, uh, favorites winning 15 of the 17th. Yeah. Well, you're spot on with that assessment,
15:54Craig, when you talk about how, how historically bad last year was, you cannot, uh, you know,
16:00over explain how bad it was. You cannot overstate how bad last year was in turn. This year has been
16:05better, but it's still not great. You had favorites of a touchdown or more. Uh, they went 16, two and
16:11one straight up in the month of September, which was their best start in nearly 50 years. And
16:17obviously we know the public likes to back favorites, especially when you have these money line parlays
16:22where you're able to put a bunch of different favorites, um, for a lower price and a return for a
16:26bigger bet. And that's really been hurting sports books, uh, at least Caesars, which came out this
16:31week and said that their, uh, sports betting profits from online were down about 50%, uh, from a year ago
16:38in the third quarter. That's because, you know, September is that one month of NFL it's fit in. You had
16:43favorites win at that historic rate yet again, you had 60% of primetime games going over. We know the
16:49public obviously loves to bet on overs and you had some really high profile games like the Monday night
16:54football game between the bills and the Ravens that went into overtime. That was the worst, uh, single
17:00game result in draft Kings history. They came out and said that last month. So it's no surprise that the, uh,
17:06results so far financially are hurting a little bit, but analysts and the stock market so far is bullish on
17:13it returning to normal. Eventually we've seen it kind of move back more towards where it should be. They want to see that
17:19momentum going in the meantime, betting handle is up. So people are betting more. The market is getting
17:24bigger. The sports books are now saying it's just a matter of time before we, we come out on the right
17:29side of the bets. And again, that's why they're the sports books. That's why they're the house. They can
17:33weather this kind of thing in theory. We'll see how it goes in October, obviously when we get those
17:37results and then eventually November, we'll be hoping for a turnaround. All right, Sam, great stuff as
17:42always. Thanks for appearing all week. We'll catch up next week here on Newswire. Thanks again.
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