You can find the Times series, titled 'A Risky Wager,' on the Times website. He's a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, Investigative Reporting and as part of a team for Foreign Reporting. Our guest today, New York Times investigative reporter Eric Lipton, worked with a team of Times reporters to examine the explosion of sports betting, the court battles and lobbying campaigns that led to its legalization, the favorable terms and light regulatory touch that many states bestowed upon gambling operators, the partnerships that betting companies have struck with sports leagues, universities and media organizations, and the impact of sports betting on problem gamblers, Native American tribes and others.Įric Lipton is an investigative reporter for The New York Times based in Washington. A recent series in The New York Times noted that the availability of online sports betting has spurred the fastest expansion of legalized gambling in American history. Just four years ago, it was illegal to gamble on sports most places in the United States.

And step three - showtime.ĭAVIES: That's Jamie Foxx, one of a host of celebrities appearing in ads promoting online sports betting.

JAMIE FOXX: You want to make every game interesting? Step one - open the BetMGM sportsbook. If you watch TV, especially if you watch sports, you've no doubt seen ads like this lately.

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