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
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