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How the US turned sports into one big casino

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Terry Rozier was one of several current and former NBA players indicted Thursday in a gambling scheme. | Tomas Diniz Santos/Getty Images Sports betting has become so ubiquitous and so massive in the US that it can be difficult to remember that at the start of 2018, it was only legal in four states, and only in Nevada could you bet on individual games.  All that changed in May of that year, when the Supreme Court stuck down the federal law that barred most forms of sports gambling. Since then, the legal sports gambling industry has spread to 38 states plus Washington, DC, with revenues...

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