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No-look pass; Illegal or not, most firms turn blind eye to discreet NCAA pools.(National Collegiate Athletic Association)
Crain's Detroit Business, March, 2005 by Ankeny, Robert
Byline: Robert Ankeny, Andrew Dietderich Breaking the law never kept David Fry from playing fantasy sports, filling in March Madness brackets or betting on those perennial playoff losers, the Oakland A's, with his employees. Instead, the CEO of Ann Arbor-based Fry Inc. stopped gambling because he got tired of paying for steak dinners and losing money.
Though he has stopped, he knows it still happens at his Web development company that had revenue of $25 million last year and employs 140. And he doesn't mind one bit. "I don't measure how productive my employees are on a minute-by-minute basis,'' Fry said. "Yes, I understand that it's illegal, but if they take five minutes here or there to talk college basketball, I don't really care. I just don't want it...
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