Lamar Jackson will start for the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night against the Miami Dolphins. Coach John Harbaugh said so, Jackson said so and — here’s the relevant news — the Ravens’ injury report confirmed it Tuesday in listing Jackson as “Full Practice.”

Under normal circumstances, any Dolphins fan would give a why-us shrug and, more to the point, bettors would wager accordingly. But circumstances were not normal last week, when the Ravens’ injury report and the arrest of three NBA figures on gambling charges created a sky-is-falling theme in the sports world.

This was inevitable, right? A sports world that didn’t just invite gambling into games but handed it a drink and sat it in the owners’ suite had a scandal. But you can hold two opposing thoughts about all this:

1.This NBA gam

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