In this day and age, you can make a wager on just about anything.
Who wins a game, by how much, what color the Gatorade (in the Gatorade bath) will be, how long the national anthem will be—there is truly an endless number of things bookies will take bets on.
These days, Donald Trump and Curt Schilling have become hot topics in both the political and sports worlds, because both are as outspoken as it gets. Trump's willingness to say what's on his mind hasn't hurt his run at the Republican presidential nomination, whereas Schilling's social media posts recently cost him his job at ESPN.