By DAVID HINOJOSA / The Dallas Morning News
dhinojosa@dallasnews.com
An Internet gambling site is no longer accepting wagers for the Southlake Carroll-Miami Northwestern high school football game because of backlash it has received since a Dallas Morning News article was published Thursday.
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The DMN reported that Costa Rica-based 5 dimes.com had listed Carroll as an 8-point favorite for the Sept. 15 at SMU’s Ford Stadium that will be televised nationally by ESPNU.
Officials from Carroll and Florida were outraged when it found out Wednesday that a Web site was offering the game for wagering. The company also accepted wagers for Wednesday’s Little League Softball World Series (for 12-year-old girls) championship between Elgin, Texas, and Morristown, Tenn.
“We have decided not to enter into this moral debate, and we’ve decided to take the game off the board,” said Rommel Johnson, the Web site’s customer service director.
Johnson said the company will no longer offer betting lines for high school football and Little League baseball and softball.
