An award-winning ESPN producer resigned after 24 years over the network's embrace of sports betting: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”

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[–] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

Even more to it too. Once it gets big enough you start getting match fixing, so it ruins the sport and also endangers all players since fixing all but necessitates organized crime.
The final outcome is a world where someone bets on a runner up, and goes out to shoot the champion, to steal money from the addicted masses.

The same issues apply for betting on other real world things.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago*

    There’s an episode of The Shield where another team is coming to town to play the Lakers and the detectives kidnap the star player under some bullshit about a threat to his safety and keep him in a hotel until he can’t make the game. I suspect similar things have happened and will increase.

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