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A Little Wagering Going On
by Paul on 09/02/09 at 01:47 PM ET
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from Justin Bourne at The Hockey News,
For two decades Pete Rose has been blackballed for gambling on his own baseball team.
Professional hockey players literally do it every single game.
It’s an accepted part of dressing-room culture, like heaping verbal abuse on the nearest human in range. The difference between Charlie Hustle and the hockey hustle is that when hockey players put “Money on the Board,” everybody wins.
Before each game, a few players will saunter up to the dry-erase board in silence and put their jersey number down, with a dollar amount beside it. It means “If we win, I’ll donate this number of dollars to the team pot.”
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