Everyone Keeping an Eye Out

With residents keeping a close eye on the slot machine shenanigans that have been going on in their legislature in Ohio, there is another group that is also watching to see what becomes of the games. The Ohio High School Athletic Association is wondering how the slot machines are going to affect them as well.
 
Now, you might be wondering why a HS Athletic Association cares at all about slot machines, but it isn’t so much the slot machines that concerns them – rather the location of those machines. They say that each year they hold their state cross country meet in the fall at Scioto Downs. But if slot machines are coming to the track this could impact them dramatically.
 
This year’s meet is scheduled for November 7th and they don’t foresee any changes in that right now, but they say next year is a whole other situation. The track is one of seven that would be getting slot machines under the plan, according to their governor and legislators. The state does not have a specific time frame yet for when they would be bringing in the slot machines so they say that they don’t really have to worry about it for this year, but next year will surely be different.
 
The school is circulating a petition that says that once the slot machines come in, if they could refrain from taking bets the day of the meet until 5 pm this would allow them to have the track for their annual meet and keep the gamblers and the students from intermingling. They say that they could make the other tracks act accordingly and this way they would not be penalized for offering the track to the students.

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