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.
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