Why Sports Are All in on Betting
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🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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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
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| 0:00.0 | If you watch live sports these days, there is one thing that is always there. |
| 0:23.8 | I don't mean the athletes or the announcers or the play by play, but betting. |
| 0:29.0 | You cannot watch TV without seeing betting ads. |
| 0:31.6 | You can't listen to the radio. |
| 0:32.9 | You can't open a newspaper to the extent that people still do that. |
| 0:36.9 | Sports betting ads are everywhere and they're likely to be that way for some time. |
| 0:43.0 | That's John Holden. |
| 0:44.1 | He's an associate professor at Oklahoma State and when you want to talk about sports betting, |
| 0:48.9 | he is the guy. |
| 0:51.0 | John has watched legal sports betting explode after a 2018 Supreme Court decision made it legal |
| 0:57.9 | and made it seemingly inextricable from every aspect of big time sports. |
| 1:04.7 | You can't turn on the TV or use the internet or even listen to a podcast without the ever |
| 1:11.5 | present opportunity to take the over or the under. |
| 1:15.3 | Coming up on Daily Wager Today, the Western Conference finals tip off tonight in the |
| 1:19.0 | Mile High City. |
| 1:20.0 | Can the King keep his Game 1 road win streak going? |
| 1:24.4 | Has it changed the way you feel about watching live sports? |
| 1:27.7 | You know, I think I'm in probably the majority that think this is over the top. |
| 1:32.5 | It's a little bit annoying. |
| 1:35.0 | It's hard to drown it out. |
| 1:36.4 | For me, I think, you know, I'm inundated with this. |
| 1:39.3 | I spend most of my work day around this. |
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