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They did not "declare it legal in 50 states". They declared that any state can legalize it if they want to. Some are moving faster than others on this but nothing has changed on that front yet. I've seen a lot of chicken littles whining that there will be widespread game fixing in sports now. In pro sports, no way, because even if sports betting is eventually as widespread as lottery kiosks, it's still too expensive to do. Now, in college sports, where the players are hugely exploited? Yeah we could definitely see another point-shaving scandal. But of course the solution to that is to stop allowing the NCAA to operate as a cartel that violates antitrust law. What will really be disastrous is what this does to labor bargaining. The next step here is the Big Four say "whoa we can't have all this gambling! uh unless we all get a cut of the action so we can, um, 'protect the integrity of our sport' to 'maintain the public's trust'." Orrin Hatch is already on that, you can be certain they will make sure their crocodile tears about legitimacy are used to guarantee them a cut of money they aren't entitled to in the slightest. And once they get that money, it will be excluded from every CBA's definition of "revenue", and players can either deal with that or get locked out.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Also what about the issue of children being exposed to gambling advertisements? For a while now virtually every commercial during US sports events are either for beer, dick pills, or daily fantasy sports sites which already were, essentially, gambling
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May 15, 2018 14:05
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Tons of states already have casinos and lotteries and horse racing and keno and it's all heavily advertised and all they do is put disclaimers with 800 numbers for problem gambling hotlines This is not a pandoras box, the truly degenerate sports gamblers didn't need a legal place to spend their money
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