John Mateer gambling scandal expected to 'fizzle out,' per ESPN's Pete Thamel

August 14, 2025

By Alex Byington, On3 Rivals: Earlier this week, new Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer went on the defensive after screenshots of a pair of past Venmo transactions from 2022 made the rounds on X/Twitter, both of which were captioned as “sports gambling.”

Mateer, who transferred to Norman from Washington State this offseason, released a statement Tuesday explaining away any perceived gambling malfeasance as nothing more than “inside jokes between me and my friends.”

“The allegations that I once participated in sports gambling are false,” Mateer said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. “My previous Venmo descriptions did not accurately portray the transactions in question but were instead inside jokes between me and my friends.

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ESPN's Pete Thamel reveals expected conclusion of John Mateer gambling scandal

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