You know what they say about casinos – the house always wins.
Despite that, tens of millions of Americans engage in gambling of every year, with sports wagers taking up a lot of space under that umbrella. You can hardly watch a sports game these days without having FanDuel or DraftKings advertisements shoved down your throat at every commercial break. Even our beloved College Gameday now picks “against the spread” on Saturday mornings rather than just predicting a winner.
Within professional sports, betting scandals among athletes are historically commonplace. The Black Sox Scandal certainly comes to mind.