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Why Sports Are All in on Betting

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

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The History of Sports Betting

Sports betting and sports are probably a little bit of chicken in the egg what came first. The fear at the time was that more sports betting would lead to more game fixing. Major League Baseball and all the other sports leagues really had this fear that if we had legal betting, we would see the 1919 World Series just repeat itself over and over again. And it would effectively spell the end of organized sports.

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