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work_5g6r33c2bncv3kefa5iew6kqby	Jeffrey A. Standen	The Beauty of Bets: Wagers as Compensation for Professional Athletes	2006	2	.pdf	application/pdf	662	56	61	Bets as Inducements to Player Performance ............................... many fans engage in sports fantasy leagues, gambling on fictitious games made up of fictitious teams populated by real players playing Presumably, these fans' taste for "financial sports," such as fantasy attention these financial fans bring to their players and leagues. sports leagues produce the product that these financial sports fans Although they appear to embrace financial sports fans, professional teams exhibit a different attitude toward players who bet. The professional leagues fear that, if team players were permitted to satisfy their taste for financial aspects of sports, their bets would sully American professional sports leagues and sports federations prohibits its athletes from wagering on their own games. that prohibition to wagering on any games within their leagues; others This essay will suggest that the sports leagues' reasons for Gambling by players on their own athletic performance is not 	./cache/work_5g6r33c2bncv3kefa5iew6kqby.pdf	./txt/work_5g6r33c2bncv3kefa5iew6kqby.txt