ESPN's failed bet says everything about sports gambling in 2025

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A new deal means sports bettors who watch ESPN broadcasts - like October's Monday Night Football matchup between the Atlanta Falcons and the Buffalo Bills — will be directed to DraftKings, and not the "ESPN Bet" brand the company had created with Penn Entertainment.

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The whole economy is a casino. Businesses like Kalshi, Polymarket, and FanDuel are cashing in.

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From trick contact lenses to NBA 'Face Cards' — how the mob allegedly rigged high-stakes poker games

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Chauncey Billups, the coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, was accused of taking part in a criminal poker ring.

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Why the NBA sports betting scandal could be 'the tip of the iceberg'

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Terry Rozier of the NBA's Miami Heat was arrested as part of the FBI's sports betting investigation.

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How illegal sports betting actually works

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Owen Hanson is a former college athlete who ran an illegal sports betting company and later expanded into international cartel-backed money laundering and drug trafficking.

Jimmy Pitaro breaks down ESPN's streaming gamble — and why it took so long

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ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro wants you to start streaming his service - unless you already have a cable TV subscription.

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I make $3,000 a month by sports betting 2 hours a day — my arbitrage strategy has minimized risk

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James Crosby told Business Insider he spends about an hour or two a day placing arbitrage bets on sites like FanDuel and DraftKings and has earned about $8,500 in three months.

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2024 was the year America started to bet on everything

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Sports betting is causing some low-income Americans' finances to go from bad to worse

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The United States is still learning about the societal impacts of its sports betting boom.

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Legalized sports betting is creating a disastrous doom loop

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The thing about sports betting is addicts think their problem is the solution.

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