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Athletes are not the only casualties in sports gambling. A University of Wisconsin-Madison student who had lost thousands of dollars gambling was charged with three counts of first-degree homicide in the shooting of three men in 2003. Meng-Ju Wu, 19, set up an offshore-betting account and was advised poorly by friends and a bookie.38
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Information from nearly 6,700 Grade 7-12 Manitoba students shows 38 per cent have taken part in some form of gambling within the last year. The report shows 63 per cent of kids started gambling socially before their 10th birthday.
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Canadian research reported at an international gambling conference in Auckland that men see high-risk gambling as an expression of their masculinity. Women in the study were less likely to indulge in high-risk gambling and more likely to play "sociable" games such as housie. New Zealand Herald
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It still is, to such an extent that gambling rings involving betting on college basketball resulted in arrests at Mt. Carmel, St. Rita and Marist high schools in Chicago in the past week. Of the nation's nearly 16 million college students, one out of four gamble, according to the National Council on Problem Gambling.
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