Posted on 10/25/2025 11:19:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sports betting has become so ubiquitous and so massive in the US that it can be difficult to remember that at the start of 2018, it was only legal in four states, and only in Nevada could you bet on individual games.
All that changed in May of that year, when the Supreme Court stuck down the federal law that barred most forms of sports gambling. Since then, the legal sports gambling industry has spread to 38 states plus Washington, DC, with revenues of nearly $14 billion in 2024, much of which has come from burgeoning and highly addictive mobile apps like DraftKings and FanDuel.
The reason why sports betting was off-limits for so long was because of concerns that the sheer money involved could lead to scandals that would call into question the integrity of sports games.
Well, guess what? On Thursday, as part of a joint federal, state, and city investigation, the FBI announced at a Brooklyn press conference indictments of three current and former NBA players — including one well-known coach who’s in the Hall of Fame — for alleged involvement in apparent Mafia-driven theft, fraud, and robbery schemes that include detailed bets involving inside information…that calls into question the integrity of NBA games. And just in time for the start of the NBA season this week.
The indictments are only the latest betting scandal to hit...
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
Release the Epstein files... I don’t care about big F-troop bust of players ambling over a kids game.
Whatever you do, always focus on the distractions that the Lefties wants you to focus on.
Don’t pay any attention to the real dangers we face.
Keep your focus on the meaningless distractions.
Isn’t this your thread?
Is this the real danger issue or part of the conspiracy of meaningless distractions?
For crying out loud, sports betting is so huge iand t is not a distraction. Must of us can chew gum and walk at the same time.
Sports betting and throwing games has always been around. Except now, you will be seeing more pass interference at crucial points and more fumbling in the pile.
I think it was a playoff game involving the Saints. The back took the ball and ran through a seemingly solid wall of players. They kept showing a slow motion replay of the run; he did run through players but each defender extended their hands and kept them parallel to his body and he slipped on through. Anybody that has ever tackled a player knows you don’t keep your fingers outstretched, you grasped with closing fingers.
14 Billion... LOL. Add in illegal gambling and you can times that by 10.
Shohei Ohtani stuck out twice last night... I wonder what the over and under on that outcome was... Then I wonder... How much did Ohtani bet on it?
Last week the high school attended by a family member sent out an email warning that a number of kids at the school have recently gotten in trouble with online sports-betting, and that parents need to aware of situation, monitor kids’ spending etc.
Yes, sports betting has always been around. But it’s never been easier to do than it is now.
The casino/betting/polymarket money is needed for liquidity with the digital financial system. It will take to long to get hard assets tokenized to get up to speed and get people using that liquidity.
If you bet on sports you will get what you deserve, be it good or bad.
2 words “ Banana Ball”. Baseball is still fun for the family.
“Except now, you will be seeing more pass interference at crucial points”
just saw a 100% bogus roughing the passer call against va tech for a perfectly legal tackle on a cal tech 3rd down late in the 4th quarter ... it was obvious the refs were trying to tip the game to cal tech:
https://www.google.com/search?q=roughing+the+passer+virginia+tech
it’s been pretty obvious to me for quite some time that NFL games have been fixed: too many incomprehensible play calls by coaches and too many random penalties called and NOT called ...
Whether it is college or professional, sports betting will ruin the sport. The current case is just the tip of the ice berg.
“Beisbol been berry berry good to me!”. Chico
back in the day, all we had was the weekly football card
Mike Florio and Michael Holley react to the FBI’s arrests of NBA figures in a gambling investigation and explain why the NFL should be concerned about a similar issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxhN1eWewaY
It was always gambling that made professional sports teams profitable businesses, even if the teams did not partake directly of gambling money.
Maybe not so much baseball, but the NFL and NBA absolutely from day one.
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