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Major League Baseball Michael Hoomanawanui Jersey , the NBA, and the PGA want states that adopt gambling to cough up one percent of the action in exchange for, well, nothing. But the sports leagues are willing to take a lot less in exchange for, well P.J. Williams Jersey , nothing.

Via Patrick Anderson of the Providence Journal, the trio of leagues has slashed their request from 1.0 percent to 0.25 percent in Rhode Island.

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That argument has never flown in Nevada, and the sports leagues never have tried to take a stand against illegal gambling on this plank of sanctimony. Instead Donald Trump Jersey , they’ve historically enjoyed the increased interest in their sports via legal betting in Nevada and illegal betting elsewhere. Now that the other 49 states can get in on the act, the sports leagues are putting a hand out because: (1) they can; and (2) the cost for doing so pales in comparison to the money they could make, if they can convince one or more states to swallow a hook that holds no actual bait.

The NFL has yet to make a move for any type of integrity fee, but the league’s constant references to the “integrity of the game” (even with one of the teams already slated to move to Las Vegas) seems to be the precursor to making a play not in statehouses but in Congress to get a fee aimed at giving them the money, ostensibly Brandon Parker Jersey , to ensure that the games will have something they already should.

All players on NFL rosters hope they don’t get the phone call from their teams telling them to bring their playbooks to turn in because they are being released as rosters are trimmed to 53 players this last weekend.

Packers tight end Robert Tonyan didn’t get that call, but he did get a text. However, that text didn’t come from anyone associated with the Packers.

According to Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com, Tonyan was in his hotel room playing a video game when the text came in asking him to come to Lambeau Field to turn in his team-issued iPad.

But when he got to the stadium he found people excited for him because he had made the team, only he was unaware of this fact due to the message on his phone.

“I went up there and they were like Travis Benjamin Jersey , ‘Congratulations,'” Tonyan said. “I’m like, ‘What the hell is going on? Why is everyone happy up here? I’m coming in to turn in my stuff. I got the text.'”

Packers security officials found the source of the message but did not tell Tonyan who it was.

Tonyan caught four passes for 31 yards and a touchdown in Green Bay’s preseason finale.

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