Federal Indictments Are Doing Congress’s Job on Sports Betting

The federal government has now charged an MLB pitcher with taking bribes to rig pitches, arrested 34 people across two concurrent NBA gambling investigations, and indicted 39-plus college basketball players across 17 Division I programs in a point-shaving operation that ran for nearly three years. Sports betting integrity isn’t a hypothetical concern anymore. It’s aContinue reading “Federal Indictments Are Doing Congress’s Job on Sports Betting”

A Gambling Reference Every 4 Minutes: Sports TV Has a Problem It Won’t Admit

The Washington Post trained an AI to watch 50 hours of sports television and count gambling references — commercials, arena logos, broadcast overlays, analysts quoting spreads. Nearly 90,000 frames analyzed. The result: one gambling reference every four minutes, across every sport, every broadcast, every network. Hockey was the worst. Gambling references appeared in 60% ofContinue reading “A Gambling Reference Every 4 Minutes: Sports TV Has a Problem It Won’t Admit”

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