How Sports Betting Is Changing Everything About Sports
It’s hard to encounter sports these days without thinking about gambling. Every broadcast, podcast and conversation seems to include some element of financial investment in the outcome of a match. Money has always been a part of professional athletics, but it’s worth asking how this new infusion of cash is warping how we interact with sports. Players, fans, investors and leagues are all participants in a kind of grand experiment in what adding billions of dollars does to America’s great pastimes. And to think, we still call it a game.
