Across the Sports Betting Landscape with SBA President Joe Maloney
The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Favorites is back and this time we're taking a higher level look at the always murky waters of sports betting legalization in America! Action Network duo Stuckey & Brandon Kravitz welcome Joe Maloney, President of the Sports Betting Alliance, for a conversation on all things gaming and gambling. Maloney discusses the difficulties of certain news cycles and headlines featuring athlete betting scandals, increased state taxes surrounding sports wagering, the prediction market wave impact on legal sportsbooks, safeguards in place for gambling addiction and more. Plus, the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder have a pivotal Game 5 tonight, so the squad plant's their flag with the help of Evan Abrams.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the favorites presented by Draft Kings. The Crown is yours. We are an action network podcast. I'm your host, Brandon Kravitz, back at it with the Prime Minister of Dijan Nation Stucky, |
| 0:23.2 | our resident statsman Evan Abrams. |
| 0:28.6 | Kendra Middleton is off chasing elephants in Africa, Jags, Garb, and all. |
| 0:31.5 | We wish her best in her travels. |
| 0:33.2 | The weather is nicer. |
| 0:36.9 | It's been where I am, it's been raining for like 10 days straight. |
| 0:37.5 | It looks all right. |
| 0:55.8 | I mean, she just texted us. She saw an elephant, so things have to be going pretty decent. Like, this is the time of the year. I actually want the weather to be nice. And I thought it was supposed to be April showers, bring May flowers. But not, it's not this month for me. Like, this is the month I want to go out, ride my bike and, uh, I don't have to be, I'm not grinding every second of the day. Like my college football, real grind starts June 1st. |
| 1:01.8 | So like, these are just days that are getting washed out for me. But I guess this is how the |
| 1:06.8 | Peloton, uh, made a bunch of money is that you could just indoor bike i have a peloton i just hate i |
| 1:12.7 | hate it i went and biked outside and fell in love with it a couple years ago um so yeah i just |
| 1:19.7 | when i do it i dread it and then i'm just on my phone the whole time like that's the other thing |
| 1:24.1 | like i'm just on my phone i'd be looking at line. So I don't really disconnect from anything. |
| 1:28.8 | But when like you're riding your bike outside, like you actually do get fresh air. |
| 1:35.4 | I do disconnect. |
| 1:36.2 | I'm not on my phone. |
| 1:38.6 | So it's a me problem. |
| 1:40.0 | But it is what it is. |
| 1:42.4 | Kentucky getting the two seed in the regional baseball. |
| 1:45.6 | Someone told us in our chat. |
| 1:46.8 | They better watch out for St. Peter's, |
| 1:48.2 | but other than that, |
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