All Or Nothing: The Rise of Sports Betting | 134
Scamfluencers
Wondery
4.1 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we examine America’s favorite pastime: gambling. With loosening regulations, the explosion of online betting sites, and the full support of major sports leagues, sportsbetting has become ripe for scam. In this episode we meet an accountant who worked the system and bilked an NFL team out of millions, an interpreter who conned one of baseball’s greatest players, and a basketball player who bet against himself. In all three cases, the stakes are high and hopes are dashed when luck runs out.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Scam Fluencers fans, Sarah here. |
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| 0:25.0 | Thank you. experience, sign up today. Sachi, I know you spend as much time watching TV as I do, and have you noticed that |
| 0:29.2 | it seems like every single ad is for a chicken sandwich or sports betting? |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah, it is ubiquitous. |
| 0:35.7 | It is everywhere, and I have never gambled, but I feel like you might be a casino |
| 0:40.5 | girly or you're too scared. |
| 0:43.1 | I've actually never been to a casino. |
| 0:45.8 | I don't think I'm afraid of it. |
| 0:47.3 | I am afraid of being separated from my money. |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah, I don't want to be separated from my money either. |
| 0:52.4 | And the rise of sports gambling isn't only |
| 0:54.8 | annoying us with constant ads. It's putting sports fans, professional leagues, and players in a |
| 0:59.8 | difficult spot. We're going to get into all the scammy sides of this growing trend in today's |
| 1:04.5 | episode. On November 13th, 2014, the top story in the sports world isn't about something that happened |
| 1:12.5 | on a court or on a field. It's an op-ed in the New York Times written by the new NBA commissioner |
| 1:18.0 | Adam Silver. The piece is titled, Legalize and Regulates Sports Betting. And it opens with |
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