How Sports Became Addicted to Gambling

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Here’s an experiment for you. Go onto YouTube, turn off your AdBlocker if you have one, and see how many adverts for gambling sites and apps you get over the course of the day. I swear that every ad I’ve gotten on the site for the past few months has been related to gambling ( or Temu , but that’s a different story.) It’s not just online either. TV ads are an endless cycle of promotion for how to make a few quid or “enjoy your favourite sport even more” with gambling. Watch any match or game and it’s the same issue, whether it’s the pitch-side advertising or logos on the strips or players themselves doing the sponcon. When he’s not sucking up to Saudi dictators, Kevin Hart is shilling for ga

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