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What on a breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, it's been seven years since the Supreme Court deregulated sports gambling.

And each year since, the amount of cash that changes hands over games grows. Just a few

days before Sunday Super Bowl, the American Gaming Association predicted that about $1.39 billion

would be gambled on that single event. But for those who use any of these online platforms

and apps to play sports bets, it's not a single event.

Gamblers can bet on almost any aspect of the game, the score, the score per quarter, first

touchdown, who'd be selected MVP, which team would win the coin toss? In fact, one rather

detailed New York Times article explained that one could even wager on the length of the national anthem.

Sports gambling went from illegal to fully integrated an American life at remarkable speed.

Both ESPN and Sports Illustrated now have their own betting apps, and the different possible bets,

misreads, and predictions are now nightly features on shows like SportsCenter and other programs.

In other words, sports reporters now report on the odds as if they were describing the game itself.

In just about every way possible, gambling is certainly now part of the game.

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