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.
Everybody Loses is occasionally scattered, its chapters jumping from topic to topic, but it is deepened and enlivened by the many extraordinary and candid contacts and conversations that Funt makes with industry insiders ... Otherwise excellent.
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