David Stern Told S.I. Legalized gambling on the NBA ”May be a huge opportunity.”
In may of 1996 Horace Balmer the NBA’s vice president for security had two speakers flown to Norfolk Va.  whose messages were even very disturbing. Michael Franzese, a former mob boss who fixed professional and college games for organized crime, and Arnie Wexler, who for 23 years [...]

By Richard N. Velotta (contact), In Business reporter  LAS VEGAS SUN
Fri, Mar 26, 2010 (3 a.m.)
For many sports fans, the best time of the year began last week and is continuing this weekend and next.
March Madness.
It’s the time of year for miracle three-pointers at the buzzer and college basketball teams from schools few people have [...]

It was a rainy  Friday afternoon in 1983. The late Dr. Robert L. Custer , whom was the “father” of treatment for compulsive gambling, asked me to drive him to Long Island, N. Y , to visit one of his patients. This patient had entered an in-patient treatment center for compulsive [...]

By DAVE ANDERSON
Published: January 6, 1999

IN its scarlet and black practice uniforms, the Rutgers men’s basketball team gathered in the Rutgers Athletic Center meeting room where the players usually listen to Coach Kevin Bannon and watch game tapes. But yesterday there were no X’s and O’s on the chalkboard, no videos rolling.
Instead, [...]

Arnie Wexler remembers the sweet sizzle of easy money. How could he forget in a million years?
It was Memorial Day 1951. He was a 14-year-old Brooklyn boy earning four bits an hour in an after-school job when he made his first score gambling at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury: $54 cash — genuine folding green.
“It changed [...]

Compulsive gambling is a progressive disease, much like an addiction to alcohol or drugs. In many cases, the gambling addiction is hidden until the gambler becomes unable to function without gambling, and he or she begins to exclude all other activities from their lives. Inability to stop gambling often results in financial devastation, broken homes, [...]

Many people, who work in the gaming industry, are vulnerable to problems with their own gambling behaviors. Some are naturally attracted to the action, because they already have a gambling problem. Some develop a problem after being exposed to the environment. Studies have shown that employees in gaming establishments (racetracks, casinos, lottery vendors, etc.) have [...]

It is a problem sports teams hope you don’t think about. The time to fix it is now, say an obsessive-gambling expert.
By Arnie Wexler
As the cheers and jeers slowly quiet down for the 2009 World Champion New York Yankees, a festering problem throughout many sports remains: No, I am not talking [...]

I am a recovering Compulsive Gambler who placed my last bet April 10,1968.
I started gambling at about age 7 or 8 as a kid in Brooklyn, NY. It started with flipping baseball cards, pitching pennies, shooting marbles and playing pinball machines. That kind of gambling continued until about age 14. [...]