So, now we are seeing that using all the slots money to increase purses (so those increased purses would beget better racing which would beget better betting handles) was the WRONG way to distribute the slots money? How about keeping the purses at their pre-slots levels and taking ALL the slots money and seeding the betting pools with carryovers. Look at tiny harness track Dover Downs for example, ..their betting pools are MINISCULE. The harness racing action is pretty good and better than it was pre-slots era, but the betting pools are still very tiny. But, if that slots money went into the form of carryovers? (how about a 50k carryover seeded pick 4 pool every day, don\'t you think that Dovers betting pools would be much bigger if players were chasing that free 50k? Sure they would)
As far as the The Boogaard death goes, that has nothing to do with fighting in the NHL because if it did, wouldnt EVERY NHL Fighter meet his early demise? I didnt read the articles about this, but i\'m assuming that there was an \'outcry\' to ban fighting in the NHL. Also, Boogaard was a great fighter, it wasnt like he lost too many fights, it wasnt like he was constantly getting HIS brains beat in, it was normally the other way around. What about the fighters who Boogie man beat up who are still alive and living productive lives?
What about THOSE guys? Boogaard dished out more punishment that he accepted, same thing for Rick Rypien, he was also an \'amazing\' fighter who seldom lost fights. The interesting thing about Rick and Derek is that these guys weren\'t just ANY fighters, they were ELITE fighters, some of the best of all time.
Why would fighters who were considered in the list of all time greats be the ones dying if fighting was the main culprit? You would think that the guys who LOST those fights would be the ones more likely to have problems, no?
These fighters were not the \'jerry quarry\'s\' of their sport, and yet, as elite fighters go, they were dead while still actively playing as elite enforcers?
