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What Next TBD: Why Sports Are All in on Betting

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Out of the smoky backrooms, Vegas and clandestine dens, and straight to your phone—how did gambling on sports go from forbidden to inescapable seemingly overnight? Guest: John Holden, associate professor at Oklahoma State’s Spears school of business If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Check out AWS Insiders here: https://link.chtbl.com/awsinsiders?sid=podcast.whatnexttbd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:12.0

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0:33.0

The pens get set for period number two in Colorado.

0:37.0

Pens twelve games to go as they try to get into the playoffs and we're looking right now

0:41.0

drafting sports book odds. The avalanche favorites to win the West right now plus 275.

0:47.0

If you watch live sports these days, there is one thing that is always there.

0:53.0

I don't mean the athletes or the announcers or the play by play, but bedding.

0:58.0

You cannot watch TV without seeing bedding ads. You can't listen to the radio.

1:02.0

You can't open a newspaper to the extent that people still do that.

1:06.0

Sports bedding ads are everywhere and they're likely to be that way for some time.

1:12.0

That's John Holden. He's an associate professor at Oklahoma State.

1:16.0

And when you want to talk about sports bedding, he is the guy.

1:20.0

John has watched legal sports bedding explode after a 2018 Supreme Court decision made it legal.

1:27.0

And made it seemingly inextricable from every aspect of big time sports.

1:34.0

You can't turn on the TV or use the internet or even listen to a podcast without the ever present opportunity to take the over or the under.

1:44.0

Coming up on Daily Wager today in the Western Conference finals tip off tonight in the mile high city.

1:49.0

Can the King keep his game one road win streak going?

1:53.0

Has it changed the way you feel about watching live sports?

1:57.0

You know, I think I'm in probably the majority that think this is over the top. It's a little bit annoying.

2:04.0

It's hard to drown it out. For me, I think, you know, I'm inundated with this.

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