thePodcast: How legalized sports gambling could ruin Super Sunday

February 09, 2025 00:30:08
thePodcast: How legalized sports gambling could ruin Super Sunday
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thePodcast: How legalized sports gambling could ruin Super Sunday

Feb 09 2025 | 00:30:08

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Show Notes

For the week of Feb.9, 2025: Super Bowl LIX Sunday. The biggest day of the year for American sport, TV and gambling. Canadian investigative reporter and academic Declan Hill says the explosion of government-blessed betting on both sides of the U.S./Canada border threatens the integrity of sport and the health of sports fans. Hill is associate professor at the University of New Haven Sports Integrity Center, Crime Waves podcast host and author of two books on match-fixing. He is Bob Mackin’s guest on this week’s edition of thePodcast.  Plus hear from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. What does he promise to […]

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