Showing posts with label gambling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gambling. Show all posts
Friday, October 24, 2025

NBA gambling indictments

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 The NYT has the story of the latest sports -gambling scandal in which several NBA players and veterans were arrested for giving gamblers i...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In-game sports betting is something different

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 The NYT has the story: The Seductive, and Risky, Power of Live Sports Betting In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Is gambling exhibiting a sinister interest in sports?

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 Is a single missed pitch in a baseball game a sign of gambling's sinister interest in discrete events in sports contests?  It might be,...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Super bowl markets in ads and gambling (and also a football game)

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 Today is a big celebration of advertising.  But the advertisements have to be fitted into pauses in a football game.  That takes some doing...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Sports gambling presents problems for gamblers, athletes, and sports

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  Sports betting has some potentially dire implications both for betters and for athletes and sports. Gamblers can find in-app gambling whil...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Gambling as a public health issue (Lancet)

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  Here's a warning about gambling from the Lancet: The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling    October 24, 2024 "Executive S...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Gambling addiction

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  When gambling opportunities were rare and often illegal in the U.S., gambling addiction was a less visible problem than it is becoming tod...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Gambling on sports, by and on athletes

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  Now that sports betting is legal, and apps allow people to bet on particular events within a game as it unfolds, there is concern that pla...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Gambling in video games--entry level gambling for minors?

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  In-game gambling for video game tools has become an unregulated form of online gambling that may provide minors with their first gambling ...
Monday, February 5, 2024

The NFL embraces sports gambling for fans but not for players

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 The Superbowl is in Las Vegas, and gambling is being embraced by the NFL for fans, but not for players and other NFL employees. The NYT has...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Money Laundering

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  Financial regulation plays a big role in law enforcement, by helping investigators to follow the money, which is often easier than followi...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Super (bowl) markets

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 There's also a football game, but here are some other, related markets (gambling, advertising, deal making...). Gambling: WSJ: Watching...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

Lobbying for sports gambling, with cigars and whisky

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 Do addictions go together?  The NY Times has the story of how legalized (online, sports) gambling lobbyists wooed state legislators with wh...