From office pools to shady offshore outfits, Americans illegally <a href="http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/special_feature_250/270_5-things-you-didnt-know-march-madness.html" target="_hplink">bet $2.5 billion</a> on the NCAA Tournament each year, the FBI estimates. Perhaps that's no surprise, considering that 65 percent of office workers participate in a workplace pool <a href="http://blogs.vault.com/blog/workplace-issues/the-2011-vault-office-betting-survey/" target="_hplink">for the tournament</a>, according to a Vault poll. That's even more than the Super Bowl (58 percent), the survey said.
Good thing Auburn, now embroiled in <a href=" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/varez-ward-point-shaving-auburn-investigation_n_1332899.html" target="_hplink">an alleged points-shaving scandal</a>, isn't playing. If we're going to throw away money, we at least want the games to be fair.
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