April used to be about the games. Now it is about the bets. From March Madness to the NBA, sports gambling is turning shared spectacle into private transactions.
iPINIONS argues that when every play becomes a wager, the communal ritual that once defined sports begins to die…
Read my full take on Substack:
https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/sports-are-the-last-public-rituals
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