Gambling on Baseball Again

Japan's popular professional baseball team Yomiuri Giants announced another player, Takagi Kyosuke, was involved in gambling on NPB baseball games, while three players had expelled from the team for gambling last year. 

The president of Giants said that he was sorry for they could not find Takagi's illegal gambling through interview last year. But that's not the point. Gambling itself is the problem, especially on their field. 

Think of it. If a jockey bet on his own race? How about a sumo wrestler? If they bet on their profession, what do you think of it? That definitely shouldn't do.

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Betting Scandal

According to the Yomiuri Giants, Satoshi Fukuda and Shoki Kasahara have bet on the summer high school baseball tournament and professional baseball games, including Giants' games. Fukuda is believed to have lost a total of more than one million yen through the gamble. 

Gambling on baseball games privately is illegal. The police and NPB, Nippon Professional Baseball, will punish them if it is true. 

Betting on baseball games scandal happened among sumo wrestlers some years ago, and they held a tournament without spectators as a punishment. 

NPB and Yomiuri have to do a through investigation.  

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