Nick Heer: ‘How Sports Betting Has Changed the U.S. – Pixel Envy’

It is strange to me how the world of sports gambling is now just an open business like any other. It makes sense to me that it is legal, but to integrate it so tightly with every aspect of athletics is something I admit to being confused about and a little troubled by.

I was at a friend’s house this weekend and his whole family, it seemed, had taken up making a bunch of small (~$10) bets on a variety of games. Sounded like they had good fun with it, but it was novel dinner conversation to me.