The Sports Gambling Impact of Coronavirus with Tom Tolbert

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🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Wild and sudden developments are becoming the norm these days, and host Chad Millman welcomes Darren Rovell back to the show to discuss the impact the Coronavirus is having on the domestic sports landscape and beyond. What are the chances March Madness is played in empty arenas? And (with all due respect to those battling this pandemic) how could this pandemic affect point spreads? Later, ex-NBA star and beloved Bay Area radio host Tom Tolbert joins the show to discuss his experiences in front of a (nearly) vacant arena with the Clippers, as well as the heartless realities one must embrace when leveraging unsettling information to bet. Together Chad and Tom share plenty of self-deprecating gallows humor in an episode both were hesitant to see air. We also hear another story from editor Michael Leboff about an Islanders' "glue guy" he simply can't forget. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the favorites, the podcast from the Action Network.
0:14.2	I am Chad Millman, Chief Content Officer of the Action Network.
0:18.4	Today, the coronavirus, betting, March Madness, what is happening, what will happen, how will it impact
0:27.4	us.
0:28.4	Later in the show, a long-time NBA player, currently the most popular sports radio host in the Bay Area which is dealing with the
0:35.0	coronavirus front and center right now. Tom Tolber from K&BR, but first let's do the main thing.
0:45.0	The main thing.
0:47.0	From the Action Network, my friend,
0:51.0	Mr. Darren,
0:52.0	right now Darren, the main thing is how coronavirus is impacting sports,
0:58.2	how it will impact sports, you're working on a story about it, Tell me what you've learned so far.
1:04.0	Well obviously Chad everything is in flux as the stock market crashes and people are
1:11.4	being quarantined and you look at as you mentioned San Francisco and banning anything that has
1:19.9	mass crowds in a publicly owned facility at this point. So there's a lot up in the air. We had
1:28.7	the BMP paribus, the otherwise known as the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament.
1:36.0	The first big cancellation happened on Sunday night.
1:41.0	And we know that in Europe there has been games being played without crowds.
1:48.0	So that's kind of the summary going in.
1:50.2	And of course we have March Madness coming up next Thursday.
1:56.0	Right now it's kind of a day-to-day thing as to what will happen.
2:01.0	There's so much that's being considered right now obviously.
2:04.0	On the level of things that are freaking me out right now, first and foremost, you know, I say this only partially
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