Barkeley Done Gambling -

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3404115&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

Charles Barkley said earlier tonight that he is done gambling. Period. Well, for the next year or two. Speaking of gambling, who wants to bet that he's saddled up to the blackjack tables by the time the NBA finals are done? Barkley was a great NBA player, one of my top three favorite of all time. But the guy has lost $10 million in Vegas over the years. Its gonna take more than a claim on TV to get me to believe it.

And furthermore, who is the greatest gambler/athlete of all time, measured by dominance on the field and propensity to gamble off of it?

Top 3 have go to be Barkley, Jordan, and Pete Rose. Not sure who you give the prize to, probably Charlie Hustle.

You think it will take till "the time the NBA finals are done"? I'll bet you he was on his T-Mobile calling his bookie at the first commercial break on TNT. The scuttle butt today was that, despite kinda sorta apologizing and claiming that he paid his $400K to Wynn, that the debt actually hadn't been paid! Now AP is running an article as of 49 minutes ago, saying that he actually has paid it now. But there's just no question this guy has an EPIC gambling problem!