Legalized betting will confound college sports

The last thing the NCAA needs now is to worry about legalized betting and how to inoculate college athletics from the lucrative temptation of cheating. The association that governs college sports has its hands full, among other things, with a federal investigation of basketball coaches said to have been getting paid to steer top players to advisers to represent them in the pros. Similar payola allegations involving an Adidas executive chased Rick Pitino — among the most successful coaches in college basketball history — from his perch at the University of Louisville. More...