Coleman Hughes: The Case Against Sports Betting
Coleman Hughes: The Case Against Sports BettingSports betting scandals are now happening so frequently that it is hard to keep track of them. (Illustration by The Free Press)Sports gambling scandals used to be a rarity. For most of American history, it has been difficult and risky for a professional athlete to place a major bet on his own games.But with the legalization of sports betting in most U.S. states—touched off by the Supreme Court’s overturning of a federal ban in 2018—we are now entering a darker era. With online betting legal and frictionless, athletes need only a few seconds on their smartphones in order to place a bet (or better yet, get a friend or family member to do the same).
- ▪Coleman Hughes: The Case Against Sports BettingSports betting scandals are now happening so frequently that it is hard to keep track of them. (Illustration by The Free Press)Sports gambling scandals used to be a rarity.
- ▪For most of American history, it has been difficult and risky for a professional athlete to place a major bet on his own games.But with the legalization of sports betting in most U.S. states—touched off by the Supreme Court’s overturning of
- ▪With online betting legal and frictionless, athletes need only a few seconds on their smartphones in order to place a bet (or better yet, get a friend or family member to do the same).
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Coleman Hughes: The Case Against Sports BettingSports betting scandals are now happening so frequently that it is hard to keep track of them. (Illustration by The Free Press)Sports gambling scandals used to be a rarity. But thanks to the new era of frictionless betting they’re becoming commonplace, harming the integrity of sports while emptying our wallets.By Coleman Hughes07.24.26 — Culture and IdeasFOLLOW COLUMN --:----:--Upgrade to ListenProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narration121READ IN APPREAD IN APPGambling scandals are as old as professional sports itself—from the Black Sox Scandal, in which the Chicago White Sox intentionally lost the 1919 World Series in exchange for $80,000 ($1.5 million in today’s dollars), to Pete Rose, the legendary baseball star-turned-manager who was…
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