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.”

  • KC_Royalz@lemmy.world
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    I had a friend once who got a call from a sports bettor trying to sell their picks and asked him how much he bet on football a season. He said about $500. The guy laughed and hung up

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      I knew a guy when I was in big tech that’d lost $40K plus in draft kings per year.

      Fucking insane what people pour into these.