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Wager Score®, a patented platform that provides sports bettors with safe, free affordability scores and personalized updates to protect user finances, today announced a partnership with the Cincinnati Bengals to promote responsible sports gaming practices.

The partnership comes during a pivotal time in Ohio, as the state opens for legal sports betting on Jan. 1, 2023.

The next chapter for Charles Oakley: responsible gambling. 

The NBA’s last enforcer is now charged with protecting college students from getting out of line with their bet amounts. 

Bo Grey, founder of Wager Score, has partnered with the Charles Oakley Foundation to advocate for responsible gambling in New York and elsewhere. Wager Score is also a partner of the Entain Foundation and BetMGM. Ex-Giant Amani Toomer is also involved. 

The Charles Oakley New York Knicks fans know and love — the enforcer, the protector — is still there. Don’t let the white hair or wrinkles under his eyes fool you. The spirit of a player who would rather bloody your nose than shake your hand hasn’t aged a day since he retired from the game 18 years ago.

It’s the arena that has changed. Instead of battling for rebounds, he is battling hunger and homelessness. Instead of protecting superstar players, he is protecting gambling fans from irresponsible decisions.

In 2020, the Charles Oakley Foundation launched the Oak Out Hunger campaign, which has provided thousands of meals and other social services to impoverished families in many major American cities.

The Help, Care, Give Foundation, and founders Henry Butler along with his wife, casting director Leah Daniels-Butler, supported the efforts of the Charles Oakley Foundation to feed the homeless on Skid Row from the outset and continue to encourage the entertainment industry to lend time, talent and financial resources to feed, clothe and shelter those most in need.

NBA Legend hosts a series of social and community events, launches new chapter with memoir and startup.

“It was only right with the NBA All-Star coming to my hometown, that I got my team together so we could get out in the community to make a difference,” said Charles Oakley.

Now Oakley is protecting the next generation of online sports bettors as a partner at My Wager Score™, a patented technology designed to protect sports bettors’ financial health through the delivery of real-time affordability data. My Wager Score™ is a financial empowerment tool that also converts 1% of every dollar bet on gaming partner sites into charitable, tax-deductible donations.

With sports betting becoming as American as apple pie, ensuring the safety of bettors is becoming an increasing priority. Following in the footsteps of his college coaches three decades ago, Toomer is spreading the word about sports integrity and responsible gambling as a trustee for Entain Foundation U.S., a non-profit founded by global sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment group Entain.

The organization, which sponsors a variety of informational and educational programs on problem gambling including its Gamble Responsibly America app launched in September, has committed more than $100 million to responsible gambling programs over the next five years.

As National Problem Gambling Awareness month gets underway, a coalition of nonprofits – The Charles Oakley Foundation , and Entain Foundation US – will supply food, fun and fandom to New York’s largest soup kitchen on Friday, March 11th. Media are encouraged and invited to attend.

“Even though it feels as if the worst of the pandemic is behind us, we are still seeing record numbers of New Yorkers visiting us for a hot meal or a week’s worth of groceries,” says he Reverend Dr. Anna S. Pearson, the Executive Director of Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York City.  “We are incredibly grateful to these foundations for selecting our program as a site for the 2022 “Oak Out Hunger” campaign, and for all the generous individuals like Charles Oakley who allow us to continue our essential work.”

Retired NBA Legend Charles Oakley encourages responsible sports betting as National Problem Gambling Awareness month gets underway

As National Problem Gambling Awareness month gets underway, a coalition of nonprofits – The Charles Oakley Foundation , and Entain Foundation US – will supply food, fun and fandom to New York’s largest soup kitchen on Friday, March 11th. Media are encouraged and invited to attend.

This week alone, Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen expects to distribute over 60,000 meals – a 634% increase compared to the same time of year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Former NY Giants wide receiver Amani Toomer was one of many panelists at the 3-day event

The three-day event, which featured nearly 50 speakers, offered attendees specific tools and best practices to prevent, detect, and mitigate corruption and fraud in gaming, and to help identify and address behaviors that may be unlawful or unethical.

“Seton Hall Law’s annual Gaming Bootcamp is a landmark event for the industry. As the premier gaming compliance program on the East Coast, the Boot Camp has trained a number of gaming industry professionals in best practices, compliance and—most importantly—integrity, all of which help make the gambling industry more impactful and responsible,” said Martin Lycka, senior vice president for American regulatory affairs and responsible gambling at Entain.

Bo Grey is a serial entrepreneur, sports betting pioneer and inventor and co-founder of My Wager Score™.

My Wager Score™ is a patented technology that puts responsible gaming into the hands of bettors who unlock access to the financial empowerment tool that also converts 1% of every dollar bet on gaming partner sites into charitable, tax-deductible donations.