Losing Big

America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling

192 pages

English language

Published 2025 by Columbia Global Reports.

ISBN:
979-8-9870537-0-6
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I feel like a lot of these single-issue, "why is no one talking about this?" deep dives all kinda boil down to: the kids™ are not alright. In this instance, the kids are 18 to 35 year old young men - and particularly men of color - as if they didn't have enough going on.

At this point even someone like me who doesn't follow any sports is just one degree removed from someone who frequently bets on games. I have a coworker who I still mock for betting on FIFA streams during the height of COVID lockdowns because nothing else was playing, but it seems like his behavior is becoming more the norm than an outlier. This book does a good job laying the groundwork for how sports betting got legalized in 2018 and how individual states experimented with their rollouts (or lack thereof). But really the main focus …

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