The gambling platforms have grown in popularity, with some users making wagers on conflicts.
Obviously the stock trading is bad enough, but this shit is ridiculous. It’s insider trading that’s basically untraceable and the fact they even have to issue this warning only proves the corruption happening within the administration. Just another downside of crypto—I’ve yet to see an upside in real life.
The people who own and populate the sports discourse have every professional incentive not to “freak out about sports betting,” because the vast majority of them are for all practical purposes employees of sports betting concerns. That, not to put too fine a point on it, is the precise reason why a question like “Is gambling really threatening the integrity of sports?” is still being treated as though it is up for discussion at a time when there are simultaneous active federal bet-fixing investigations against active players in three different highly visible professional sports
I didn’t read the original NYer column, but anyone who makes the points laid out by Albert here is crazy. There is no doubt that the integrity of sports is in trouble. And no, most fans of sports don’t think they are already fixed.
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