{"id":269643,"date":"2026-04-28T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269643\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:18:23","slug":"report-texas-tech-qb-brendan-sorsby-will-check-into-treatment-center-for-gambling-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269643\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby will check into treatment center for gambling addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As gambling becomes more legalized, normalized, and monetized, there will be issues. Especially among players who have grown up during the early Wild West period of bet! bet! bet!<\/p>\n<p>Via Pete Thamel of ESPN, new Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby will <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/48608889\/texas-tech-qb-brendan-sorsby-enter-gambling-addiction-program-sources-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">check into a residential treatment program<\/a> for a gambling addiction.<\/p>\n<p>The decision happened, per Thamel, after it was discovered that Sorsby made \u201cthousands of online bets on a variety of sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA is currently investigating Sorsby.<\/p>\n<p>The wagers reportedly included bets on Indiana to win, when he was a redshirt freshman for the Hoosiers in 2022. He did not play in any of the games in which he played.<\/p>\n<p>Sorsby transferred from Cincinnati to Texas Tech in February. The move prompted Cincinnati to sue him for breach of contract, seeking $1 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>The situation becomes the latest example of the problems that can, and will arise for players and teams at a time when gambling is everywhere. The ads are everywhere. The touting of bets is everywhere. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become part of the fabric of sport. And it has already ripped apart plenty of lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As gambling becomes more legalized, normalized, and monetized, there will be issues. Especially among players who have grown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-269643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}