What you have is illegal student bookies on every major college campus in this country taking illegal bets from students on those campuses on NCAA sanctioned events.
Quotes about bookies (8 Quotes)
Teammate Ed Macauley and I would come back to our hotel from Mass on Sunday morning, and some guys with pushed-in noses would be sitting in lobby chairs watching us. We'd deliberately limp or put our arms in slings and watch them scatter to the phones, imagining them calling their bookies telling them we were injured.
Although the bookies were due a run of better form ... we remain concerned about the underlying structural issues at work within the industry.
We weren't kids, and not too many odds were in our favor, ... We didn't look the part of a rock group by any stretch. We played the Copa, and Walter Winchell said it was a good show but (that) we looked like two bookies, a jockey and a basketball player.
Of 25 players on a roster, about six or seven of them use bookies, or whatever. That's just the way it is. If you say no, then you're turning a blind eye.
We can't afford to lose ground on anyone. It doesn't matter about the bookies' odds, other teams have started very well and that's a great incentive for us, to make sure we go about our business the right way.
He was the best horse in the race, we were all on him, and the bookies have paid up.
A lot of bookies are probably mad at us right now, but we don't give a damn, ... We're the champs.