Sports betting is booming, but at what cost?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Sportsbooks are everywhere. Sports betting has changed how fans engage with games and generated $5 billion in taxes. But the industry is also fueling scandals and concerns over addiction.
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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.
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| 0:45.0 | The 2024 Major League Baseball season set to get underway. |
| 0:50.0 | Opening day of the 2024 MLB season, the headline was supposed to be simple. |
| 0:55.6 | Shohay O'Tani, one of the biggest stars in baseball, was making his debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers, |
| 1:02.0 | one of the favorites for the World Series. |
| 1:04.9 | In the off season, Otani had signed a 10-year, 700 million dollar deal with the Dodgers, |
| 1:11.3 | giving him the biggest contract in the history of North American |
| 1:15.2 | sports. But the story that captured the attention of baseball fans that day got a lot |
| 1:20.9 | more complicated than that. |
| 1:23.3 | The scandal broke when the LA Times reported that Otani's name came up in connection with a federal |
| 1:28.0 | investigation into a sports betting ring in Orange County. |
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