In recent years, college sports have become an unregulated, high-stakes environment in which players are paid directly by schools and can transfer an unlimited number of times. But there are still some firm boundaries that nearly everyone agrees shouldn't be crossed: gambling, for example. If you're an athlete who gambles on your own team's games, you shouldn't be allowed to play. That's how it works in the pros, where athletes such as Pete Rose and Jontay Porter received lifetime bans for betting. (Rose was controversially reinstated after his death.) That's what should've happened to the quarterback Brendan Sorsby, whose conduct isn't debatable. During his single year playing for Indiana University, from 2022 to 2023, Sorsby made 2,900 bets'40 of which were on his own team, according to court documents. After transferring to the University of Cincinnati ahead of the 2024'25 season, he bet on Cincinnati men's basketball; upon ending up at Texas Tech University earlier this year, he...
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