Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling
Funt’s writing about sports gambling’s 'winners' is almost as depressing as the look at its losers ... The only winners are a handful of sports books that are making billions ... Legal sports gambling promised easy money. Everybody Loses makes clear that it comes with enormous costs.
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Mr. Funt, a journalist, keeps a reporterly distance throughout most of the book. It’s only in the final pages that he opines about what gambling is costing society ... Sports betting has indeed been brought out of the underground and into the sunlight. It’s quickly becoming the default way we relate to athletic competition. And the outcome is predetermined.
Funt masterfully chronicles the meteoric rise in gambling and societal acceptance of a predatory business in a book that will simultaneously inform and alarm readers.
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