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Seven Years Into Legal Sports Betting, We’re Seeing It for What It Is
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Jonathan D. Cohen : Sports betting is notoriously difficult to regulate and, thanks to its rapid spread on the internet, might not be possible to make fully safe.
The results are troubling: reduced savings and increased bankruptcies in states with legal sports gambling.
Cohen : Trying to control sports bettors’ behavior is like wrestling an octopus, and regulations must account for all three groups.
David Gergen : New entrants in sports betting market call into question the Whack -a-Mole nature of sports-betting regulation.
He says it's hard to feel bad for FanDuel and DraftKings , but it's not surprising that new competitors are trying to disrupt the ecosystem that the two companies now dominate, Gergen says.
He asks: State and federal lawmakers and public should push for regulations around sports gambling.
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