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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, our number four of the Malar Radio program, television is the sugar daddy of professional sports.

It's been that way my entire life and likely your entire life.

But will TV money soon be trumped by something else? Sports gambling, we parse the words of Charles Barkley

regarding gambling revenue in the sporting world.

That and more.

It's coming your way right now.

Here it is our number four.

The cash cow is upon us.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere as we spread the gospel, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from deep inside the magic radio box the Fox Sports Radio Studio.

So our lead this hour comes from the intersection of sports and gambling.

Sports wagering slowly and surely the industry continues to become legal across the United States.

In fact, where you live right now, you might be able to bet on sports legally.

It's sweeping the nation, state by state.

Now, things got slowed down a little bit in 2020 because of the pandemic,

so some planned rollouts were held back and pushed back.

But that leads us to the words of noted gambler Charles Barkley,

who moonlights on TNT, providing NBA commentary.

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