Transcript: Blemish, Anyone? Bets Show Dark Side Of Tennis

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STEVE INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
09-17-2008
Blemish, Anyone? Bets Show Dark Side Of Tennis

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time 10:00-11:00 AM

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STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Your hard-earned money might rapidly go down the drain if you should bet on a game that has been fixed. Our sports commentator Frank Deford has been watching his own wallet, and he thinks a certain racket sport is a racket.

FRANK DEFORD: The image of tennis has long been that of a rather dainty exercise played before ladies and gentlemen on lawns, not anything so declasse as fields. It was the last major sport where amateurs, not those grubby professionals, competed in the most important championships. Love is in the scoring. ...

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