And at the bottom of that same column:
It was “do not pass go” for a former Boulder City councilwoman who showed up drunk at a court hearing related to her 2007 drunken driving arrest.
She must be one of the commenters at CTB.

Lay of Shawn - he was just following the Lenny Dykstra investment formula for success!

Shawn Chacon: a gambler on the lam! AND LENNY SELLING HIS RINGS   GAMBLING ?

Gambling by Professional Athletes , Coaches , And Referees is not that uncommon !!

In December of 1999 Arnie Wexler, a compulsive-gamblers counselor, went to the National Basketball Association office in Manhattan and met with league officials, players and union officials, concerned about players’ gambling. He recalled being told, “We have a problem, and we’re trying to find out how bad the problem is” Wexler, a resident of Bradley Beach and former executive director of the New Jersey Council on Compulsive Gambling, was told to keep his calender open from January through March, to allow him to address every team in the league.

When he didn’t hear from the NBA in a few weeks he called and asked, “When do we start?”

You don’t, he was told. “They said, “The higher ups didn’t want the media to find out.’ ”

The talks were canceled.

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I run a national help line (1-888-LAST BET ).

And over the years, I have spoken to many college and professional athletes who had a gambling problem. An NCAA study a few years ago said, “There is a disturbing trend of gambling among athletes in college” You can’t think that these people will get into the pros and then just stop gambling.

Compulsive gambling is an addiction just like alcoholism and chemical dependency and all three diseases are recognized by the American Psychiatric Association’s D.S.M. Yet, we treat compulsive gambling different then the other two addictions. Society and professional sports treat people with chemical dependency and alcoholism as sick people, send them to treatment and they get back to work yet they look at compulsive gamblers as bad people and they get barred from playing in professional sports

If the Colleges and professional leagues wanted to help the players, they would run real programs that seriously address the issue of gambling and compulsive gambling. Education and early detection can make a difference between life and death for some people who have or will end up with a gambling addiction.

“They need to have a real program for players, coaches and referees, and they need to let somebody else run it. When you do it in house, it’s like the fox running the chicken coop.

You must be kidding your self if you think any player coach or referee is going to call the league and say, ‘I’ve got a gambling problem, and I need help?”

ARNIE IS A RECOVERING COMPULSIVE GAMBLER WHO PLACED HIS LAST BET 4/10/68

CALL ME I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS—-ARNIE WEXLER

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