What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gambling on Sports

"Do you think it still counts as gambling if you're guaranteed to win? Do you think it would be a net positive to society if 100% of sports bettors used tools to gain an edge? Do you think I should have kept this story to myself? Do you ever get nervous?"

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Sports Betting: We Didn't Learn From Its History

"Sports gambling through smartphones has become widely available and wildly addictive but the effects are being felt beyond the individual gambler's bank account and anxiety levels. Partnerships between gambling companies and colleges, influencers, and even journalistic institutions like ESPN are changing the fundamentals of the sports themselves and how they're understood by fans - all for the worse."

Click on the link below for a blight on society from which the USA did not learn from history 100 years ago.

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Sports Betting: What Could Go Wrong?

"You’ve probably encountered an advertisement for sports betting in one form or another. In the past few years, there’s been a marked rise in the number of online sports betting ads from companies like DraftKings and FanDuel. Gambling companies now spend billions of dollars a year on advertising. At the same time, there’s growing concern over the effect betting is having on our experience with sports, the lack of comprehensive federal regulation, and its addictive potential. Eric Lipton is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times investigative reporter. He’s spent years following the sports betting boom. Lipton joins WITHpod to discuss how we got to this moment where sports gambling ads are integrated into almost every sports broadcast, the role of lobbying in the explosion of online betting, how the space is policed, and more."

Click on the link below for a podcast discussing the dangers of this "entertainment." (Hint: the USA banned it decades ago for reasons.)

The Explosion of Online Sports Betting