Another week, another sports betting scandal.

It’s never been this easy for a player to fix the outcome of a bet. The onset of proposition or “prop” bets, in which gamblers can place wagers on specific outcomes in a game, has opened a Pandora’s box for athletic integrity. This month, the NCAA announced that a ring of college athletes had manipulated their performance in games to aid bettors and permanently revoked their eligibility. In October, the NBA faced its own seismic gambling indictments, more alleged prop rigging, complete with connections to the mafia. Now, the MLB is under scrutiny for a betting scandal of its own, with pitchers being accused of taking bribes in exchange for rigging pitches during a game.

Eight years after the Supreme Court struck down a federal law that had ba

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