sports betting

NFL Refs Won’t Accept Accountability. Now the Whole League Might Pay for It. The NFL’s referee CBA expires at the end of May. Talks are going nowhere. Owners are frustrated. And the league is already compiling a list of 150 small college officials to replace the guys who are currently blowing calls on the biggest...

MLB can flirt with prediction markets, but after FTX and a fresh pitch-fixing case, baseball should keep its distance. Fans are already drowning in gambling ads, and this is how sports get unwatchable. Baseball doesn’t need another “innovative partnership” that sounds smart in a boardroom and feels gross on your couch. Rob Manfred has openly...

It finally happened. The casual crowd is starting to see what real sports fans have been yelling about for years. ESPN does not care about sports coverage anymore. What mattered years ago was breaking news, investigative reporting, longform documentaries, and giving fans access to the games they love. Now it is personalities, debates, carriage stunts,...

Let’s get one thing straight from the jump. I do not give a single damn that ESPN is promoting betting. I do not care that podcasters are cashing checks from DraftKings. I do not care that content creators have FanDuel links in their bios. Never have. Never will. That is the business. They are not...