Massachusetts joins with NCAA, sports teams to 取り組む 賭事ing の中で young people
BOSTON (AP) - 最高の，を越す Massachusetts 公式の／役人s joined with NCAA 大統領 and former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie パン職人 on Thursday to 発表する a new 率先 目的（とする）d at 取り組むing the public health 害（を与える）s associated with sports 賭事ing の中で young people.
パン職人 said those 害（を与える）s 延長する not just to young people making bets, but to student 競技者s coming under enormous 圧力 from bettors hoping to cash in on their individual 業績／成果s.
パン職人 said he spoke to hundreds of college 競技者s before 公式に stepping into the 役割 of 大統領，／社長 about a year ago, and he said they talked about the tremendous 圧力 they feel from classmates and bettors about their individual 業績／成果.
"The message I kept getting from them is there´s so much of this going on, it´s very hard for us to just stay away from it," he said.
パン職人 said student 競技者s pointed to classmates who 手配中の，お尋ね者 to talk to them about "how´s so-and-so doing? Is he or she going to be able to play this 週末? What do you think your chances are?"
"It was the exact same conversations I was having with my classmates and schoolmates in the ´70s. But 支援する then it was just chatter in the cafeteria or the dining hall," 追加するd パン職人, who played basketball at Harvard University. "Now it´s 通貨."
NCAA 大統領，／社長 and former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie パン職人 speaks at a news 会議／協議会 to 発表する a new 率先 目的（とする）d at 取り組むing the public health 害（を与える）s associated with sports betting の中で young people, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in Boston. パン職人 said those 害（を与える）s 延長する not just to young people making bets, but to student 競技者s coming under 圧力 from bettors hoping to cash in on their individual 業績／成果. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc)
Massachusetts 司法長官 Andrea Campbell said that since the 明言する／公表する made sports betting 合法的な in 2022, a 法案 調印するd by パン職人, Massachusetts has essentially become a 関係者 in the market.
The creates a 重荷（を負わせる） on the 明言する／公表する to make sports betting as 安全な as possible, she said.
"Think about it. We´re putting an 中毒の 製品 - 賭事ing - on a very 中毒の 装置, your smartphone," she said. "We´ve gone from sports 賭事ing 存在 違法な nearly everywhere to 存在 le gal in dozens of 明言する／公表するs throughout the country in just a 事柄 of a few years."
In Massachusetts, it is 違法な for anyone under 21 to wager on sports or in casinos.
Because young people are going to be 影響（力）d more by the teams they support than by 明言する／公表する 政府 公式の／役人s, Campbell said it is 批判的な to create a public/私的な 共同 like the new 率先 she 明かすd Thursday, the 青年 Sports Betting Safety 連合.
Campbell said members of the 連合 含む the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Celtics, the Boston Bruins, the New England 愛国者s, the New England 革命 and the NCAA. The goal is to （手先の）技術 a sports betting education, training, and safety curriculum for young people 12 to 20, she said.
NCAA data 設立する 58% of 18- to 22-year-olds have engaged in at least one sports betting activity, while the Massachusetts Department of Public Health 設立する about half of middle school students are 概算の to have engaged some form of 賭事ing, Campbell said.
パン職人 said the NCAA is 押し進めるing 明言する／公表するs with 合法的な sports 賭事ing to 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 "支え（る） bets" - short for proposition bets - which 許す gamblers to wager on the 統計（学） a player will 蓄積する during a game rather than the final 得点する／非難する／２０.
パン職人 also said the NCAA's 調査する of students 設立する that they were betting at essentially the same 率 whether it was 合法的な for them or not. It also 設立する that one out of three student 競技者s has been 悩ますd by bettors and one of 10 students has a 賭事ing problem.
"It's 基本的に a 50-明言する／公表する 問題／発行する even if it's only 合法的な in 38. And if you think kids under the age of 21 aren't doing this, you're kidding yourselves," he said at the news 会議／協議会 at Boston's TD Garden.
He said the ugliness and brutality of some of the messages on social マスコミ 壇・綱領・公約s of some of the 競技者s in the NCAA tournaments is 乱すing.
Last year, NCAA 公式の／役人s considered a 脅し by a bettor serious enough to a team that they gave them 24/7 police 保護s until they left the tournament, he said.
"For student 競技者s in particular, this is an enormously challenging 問題／発行する, and for a lot of the ones that are really in the 有望な lights, as many here will be tonight, this is just one more thing I think all of us would like to see taken off the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する," he said.
