New York Times Wildly Misses The Mark On Sports Betting Story

Oh, those rapscallions at New York Times, spending a year of their lives working on a giant sports betting investigation that reads like a treatment for a Martin Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.

I mean, the headline alone on Sunday’s main story, “Cigars, Booze, Money: How a Lobbying Blitz Made Sports Betting Ubiquitous,” is ready for the marquee. (Seriously: You're not going to fork over $14 for the matinee of Cigars, Booze, Money? Liar! Anyway …)

Listen: Sports betting ain't tiddlywinks, we all know that, nothing to see here. We all know there are dangers and pitfalls, we all know big money is involved, we all know not everyone — or more likely, anyone — involved in the business is in it for altruistic purposes.

But to think the sportsbook operators are alone here, as the NYT investigation would lead you to believe, is laughable. This could've been an awesome takedown of the lobbying industry as a whole, but instead, it used the way lobbying is done in this country to sully the good (enough) name of sports betting.

  
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