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The NBA’s gambling scandal was utterly predictable — and other pro sports will be next

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Professional sports leagues spent years shunning gambling as a threat to their public image of integrity before ... Read More

As Sports Betting Explodes, States Try To Set Limits To Stop Gambling Addiction

It isn’t easy to promote moderation and financial discipline from the bowels of a casino. But that’s what Massachusetts state workers try to do every day, amid the clanging bells and flashing lights ... Read More

How a 2018 Supreme Court decision paved the way for meteoric growth in legal sports betting

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was ... Read More

Editorial: Betting scandal risks credibility of sports industry

What were the odds when the sports industry married the gaming industry that the union would eventually produce a scandal? And now it has arrived. The FBI last week arrested 31 people across 11 states ... Read More

Sports Leagues Feared a Betting Scandal Like This. Will Anything Change?

As legalized betting has become ubiquitous in American sport, the opportunities for cheating, like those outlined in a recent federal indictment, have multiplied. By Jenny Vrentas The signs that ... Read More

Gambling Is Killing Sports and Consuming America

Mr. Lee has covered sports for ESPN, Bleacher Report and The Washington Post. There’s no denying it anymore: The arrests last week of an N.B.A. player and a head coach after allegations of insider ... Read More

Sports gambling is out of control — the NBA scandal is just the tip of the iceberg

Terry Rozier has built a respectable NBA career, averaging about 20 points per game some years. In all likelihood, though, the Miami Heat point guard will now be remembered less for what he did on the ... Read More

NBA’s gambling scandal renews congressional calls to regulate sports betting

The arrests of current and former high-profile NBA figures on Thursday for illegal sports betting and rigged poker games spurred fresh calls from lawmakers for federal regulation after the scandal ... Read More

Sports betting guru ‘Sugar’ caught with one-way ticket to Colombia in bizarre prelude to explosive NBA gambling case

A sports-betting guru ensnared in the explosive NBA gambling scandal tried to flee the country in January with $10,000 — and a one-way ticket to Colombia — as the feds closed in on a separate case, ... Read More

The Sports-Betting Disaster

When I interviewed the N.B.A. agent Daniel Hazan last year, he warned that the legalization of sports gambling was a disaster waiting to happen. Athletes have so many opportunities to manipulate games ... Read More