Who has the courage to sever sports from gambling?

The sports world needs a new Kenesaw Mountain Landis .

I don’t mean an exact clone of the guy. He’s fallen into disrepute in recent years for alleged racism and his failure to integrate baseball, of which he was commissioner from 1920 to 1944.

I mean the part of him that had no tolerance for gambling.

Eight players for the Chicago White Sox were charged with conspiring to fix the 1919 World Series . They were acquitted despite their own confessions, which they later recanted. Landis, as commissioner of Major League Baseball, was unmoved. He understood the threat even the whiff of association with gamblers posed to the game.

As the Baseball Almanac describes it, Landis didn’t care about the jury’s verdict. He issued a statement that said, “No player that throws a ball game, no p