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Mike 03

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2. I wonder if sports fans would say the betting is

Reply to RandySF (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 10, 2024, 06:11 AM

Dec 10

hurting the sports? (I like sports but I'm not aficionado enough to make this call).

I know that on SiriusXM, the callers to the sports talk shows often talk about betting. It probably puts more pressure on the athletes, the refs. There's a channel devoted only to sports gambling.

And remember the great KGO radio up there in the SF Bay Area? As you probably know that legendary station is now some kind of sports betting station. What an atrocity! (God I miss the old KGO. At night we could even pull it in here in northern AZ).

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'I literally can't stop.' The descent of a modern sports fan [View all] RandySF Dec 10 OP

Note RandySF Dec 10 #1

I wonder if sports fans would say the betting is Mike 03 Dec 10 #2

I suspect some of the vitriol around the WNBA fandom is gambling related. RandySF Dec 10 #4

It's ever present and ESPN being directly involved is absurd underpants Dec 10 #5

You cannot watch a sporting event or listen to a podcast without betting ads. RandySF Dec 10 #6

Yep. underpants Dec 10 #7

The truth about why daddy couldn't afford eggs back in October. NT Mike 03 Dec 10 #3

If Jordan took the over on the parlay line he'd have been cheering Bristlecone Dec 10 #8

This is so true and I think fantasy sports are a problem, too. LisaM Dec 10 #9