{"id":475997,"date":"2026-05-31T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475997\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T10:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:42:47","slug":"extent-of-brendan-sorsbys-gambling-addiction-revealed-in-court-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475997\/","title":{"rendered":"Extent of Brendan Sorsby’s gambling addiction revealed in court docs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Court documents filed in Lubbock, Texas, have shed light on the scale of Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby<\/a>\u2019s gambling issues.<\/p>\n

The filings reveal that Sorsby placed at least 40 bets<\/a> involving Indiana football while serving as the Hoosiers\u2019 quarterback, reports Mark Schlabach\u00a0and\u00a0David Purdum of ESPN.<\/p>\n

According to the documents, Sorsby wagered approximately $90,000 over four years using accounts registered in his own name as well as in the names of family members and friends. He transferred at least $60,000 to two friends to cover bets placed on his behalf, apparently to obscure his direct involvement.<\/p>\n

While at Indiana from 2022 to 2023, he acknowledged making at least 2,900 bets exceeding $30,000 in total, including the 40 wagers on his own team that totaled around $850.<\/p>\n

Sorsby, who has been diagnosed with a gambling and anxiety disorder<\/a>, continued betting after transferring to Cincinnati and later Texas Tech, utilizing friends\u2019 accounts for additional wagers on other sports.<\/p>\n

He completed a 35-day rehabilitation program but faces ongoing NCAA eligibility challenges<\/a>. His attorneys argue the addiction should be treated as a mitigating mental health condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Court documents filed in Lubbock, Texas, have shed light on the scale of Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[184142,103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-475997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-brendan-sorsby","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}