The decision by sportsbook employees to question a man’s wager in Ohio set in motion a series of events that shook college sports and upended baseball programs at two universities.
Before Bert Neff stepped to the window to place his wager on April 28, the staff at the BetMGM sportsbook at Great American Ball Park suspected something about him wasn’t right.
He said odd things about his bet that worried some of the employees. He was keenly interested in an Alabama-Louisiana State college baseball game almost 900 miles away. And he wanted to put down so much money on the game that the sportsbook rejected his first wager.
