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Since it was legalized in 2018, sports betting has become one of the fastest-growing entertainment markets with Americans wagering record sums, but is this healthy or harmful to sports and the American consumer?
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In 1997, I published a book called “Seducing America: Is Gambling a Good Bet?’ In 2005, the book was revised and re-published as “Gambling: Don’t Bet On It.” Hard to believe it’s been over twenty years since that book was re-released.
In April 2022, for this podcast I recorded, “Opening Floodgates of Sports Betting.”
But gambling hasn’t gone away, and in fact has greatly expanded since the turn of the century, so the arguments I made in that book and podcast are just as valid today as they were then.
The damn broke on May 14, 2018, when the Supreme Court of the United States issued its Murphy vs National Collegiate Athletic Association ruling, 6-3, that the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which banned commercial sports betting in most states, violated the 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution. In one opinion, the Supreme Court opened the biggest possible expansion of legalized betting in the US in years.
Now, 57% of adults are engaged in some form of gambling. One half of men under 50 have an active online sports betting account. A projected $23.08 billion in sports betting will be generated in North America this year, with the majority coming from the United States. The industry is expected to see an annual growth rate of 9.29%, reaching over $35 billion by 2030. Over $1.7 billion was forecasted to be legally wagered on the 2025 Super Bowl. Americans have bet “well north of” $500 billion since the 2018 Supreme Court decision, according to Legal Sports Report.
“Betting isn't something that only happens at racetracks or casinos anymore – websites and apps are helping sports betting become a nationwide pastime. And as it grows in popularity, some state coffers are benefiting to the tune of millions in tax revenue from wagers on professional sports.” “Sports betting has been legalized in some form by 39 states and in Washington, DC.”
States are now all-in to sports betting, because they are motivated by money.
“Most states tax sports betting revenue at 10% to 20%. However, there are several outliers, with Iowa and Nevada imposing just 6.75% and New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island levying fees of 51%.” It’s not logical to think state legislatures will monitor graft, greed, and corruption in gambling when they are feeding at the trough.
The vast majority of sports betting revenue is now generated through online platforms. About 30 sportsbooks are operating legally in the United States now.
Moral concerns or societal pressure seem to have disappeared. Professional sports teams that once avoided gambling like the plague but since 2018, the “Big Four,” NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB have all inked multi-billion-dollar deals with casinos and gambling apps. Same can be said for Major League Soccer. ESPN offers wall-to-wall DraftKings ads and segments in most sports shows. As comedian Bill Maher puts it, “Major league sports have become ‘wager’ league sports.”
“The NFL is arguably the biggest league in American sports and has ongoing relationships with betting companies. The National Football League signed a contract with gambling giants Caesars, DraftKings, and FanDuel, making gambling brands the official sports betting partners of the NFL. It also permitted BetMGM, WynnBet, PointsBet, and Fox Bet to promote their businesses during the games.”
Sports betting is aimed at a largely male demographic (68% of sports betting customers are men). “What was once a hobby reserved for degenerates in Las Vegas has become a casual activity that is encouraged while watching your favorite team.”
In 2025, the pitfalls of gambling caught up with professional sports. In Major League Baseball, one of the most consequential scandals involved Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, who were federally indicted for allegedly conspiring to manipulate pitches in games to help co-conspirators win prop bets. Prosecutors assert the scheme involved rigged outcomes on specific pitches, generating substantial illicit gambling profits and prompting legislative and regulatory scrutiny of “micro-bet” markets.
The fallout extended beyond that case. Former MLB star Yasiel Puig was found guilty on federal charges of obstruction of justice and making false statements tied to a historic illegal sports betting ring, underscoring how U.S. authorities are pursuing past gambling misconduct with serious penalties. Meanwhile, the NBA faced a sweeping criminal probe—code-named operations that led to the arrest of more than 30 individuals, including prominent figures like Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier, in alleged schemes involving insider betting information and rigged gambling and poker games. These scandals collectively shook public confidence in sporting integrity, sparked calls from officials to reevaluate betting markets (especially prop bets), and raised hard questions about how deeply gambling has fused with professional sports in the legal betting era.
“The NCAA and federal investigators—led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania—launched a probe into potential gambling violations in NCAA Division I college basketball. At least 30 current and former players are caught up in the investigation, in addition to some of the defendants indicted in the NBA scandal.” “NCAA president Charlie Baker has been very outspoken about his sports betting concerns. Baker has pushed for states to entirely eliminate prop bets. In a recent interview with Yahoo Sports, Baker said advances in technology have caused an eruption in the sports betting problem.” In response to the 2025 sports gambling scandals, both professional leagues and lawmakers in the United States have stepped up efforts to protect the integrity of their games and rebuild public trust. The NFL, NBA, and MLB have taken concrete steps to limit or ban certain types of wagers that are most susceptible to manipulation — especially player proposition bets tied to individual performances that one participant can influence directly.
Prop bets, short for proposition bets, are wagers on specific events within a game, rather than on who wins or loses.
- Will a quarterback throw over or under 250 passing yards?
- Will a basketball player score 30+ points?
- Will the first pitch be a strike or a ball?
- How many strikeouts will a specific pitcher have?
What makes prop bets controversial—especially in recent scandals—is that they often focus on single players or single actions, which can be easier to manipulate than an entire game. A player might influence one play, pitch, or stat without obviously throwing the game, which is why leagues and regulators see prop bets as higher risk than traditional betting. Plus, what qualifies as a prop bet is nearly infinite, and multiple prop bets can be placed per sporting event, thus the gambling company makes more money.
The NFL issued league-wide memos outlining prohibited bet categories and has been working with state regulators and sports betting partners to curb these markets, a move echoed by MLB and other organizations pushing for similar restrictions. But this all rings a bit shallow when players, coaches, and staff know the NFL is making enormous profits on gambling.
Lawmakers have intensified scrutiny of how sports betting intersects with professional sports. Some members of Congress are pushing for federal legislation like the SAFE BET Act, aimed at creating national standards for sports betting oversight, including limits on advertising and certain in-game bets, alongside public health and transparency measures.
I believe gambling violates at least five doctrines of Scripture:
1) the sovereignty of God (Luck and an omniscient, omnipotent God are mutually exclusive concepts),
2) stewardship (We are accountable to God for our time, talent, and treasure),
3) theft (For you and me to win at gambling a lot of others must lose),
4) covetousness (God commands contentment not greed),
5) potentially addictive (The Bible tells us not to allow our minds, bodies, or souls to be brought under the power of anything other than the Spirit of God).
Sports wagering is the primary entry point to more gambling among adolescents and college students, especially young men. Gambling in all its forms, including sports wagering, turns tried and true values upside down. Gambling undermines a positive work ethic and the productivity that comes from it. Gambling also undercuts a person’s ability and desire to defer gratification in order to accomplish a goal. Individual enterprise, thrift, effort, and self-denial are set aside for chance gain, immediate satisfaction, and self-indulgence. And the bottom line, with hundreds of years of history and hundreds of examples to document it, gambling ruins lives.
I recommend you avoid gambling, particularly online sports gambling. Enjoy sports for the sport, not how much money you can win—or more likely lose.
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In just under a decade, sports gambling has exploded into a ubiquitous activity almost as important as the sports. But why? Haven’t we heard experienced gamblers say, “You can win a race, but you can’t beat the races?”
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The Super Bowl is the number one betting day of the year---this year with legal wagering over $7.61 billion. An estimated 31.4 million adults bet on the Super Bowl, a 35% increase from 2021. Illegal gambling worldwide multiplies that total by a factor of 10 or 20 or 30. Gambling is not just an American pastime; it’s a world pastime.
The biggest gambling news in a long time in the US took place May 14, 2018. In Murphy vs National Collegiate Athletic Association, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which banned commercial sports betting in most states, violated the 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In one opinion, the Supreme Court opened the biggest possible expansion of legalized betting in the US in years.
States were set loose to pass legislation allowing whatever sports wagering seemed most lucrative to them, and this is the real bottom line…states, starting with New Jersey, wanted their piece of an estimated $340 billion to $1.7 trillion annual haul in illegal sports betting.
By legalizing sports betting, or as proponents call it, “regulating” sports betting, state legislatures got the chance to funnel funds to their own coffers.
March Madness is America’s other gambling lollapalooza.
Las Vegas casinos have taken in over $378 million in college basketball betting during the tournament in recent years. But most sports wagering, especially during March Madness, is done illegally through local bookies or through online sportsbooks.
NCAA tournament brackets pools alone see Americans risk around $3 billion – that’s 45 million or 17% of American adults as opposed to 31 million betting on the Super Bowl – and that doesn’t even count the numerous contests put on by businesses that entice bettors and pay out prizes to winners in hopes of getting people to their stores.
Now interestingly, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) had been the most stalwart sports organization opposing legalized sports wagering.
Along with the NCAA, professional leagues—NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL—were also historically wary of sports wagering. They rightly remember the 1919 Black Sox scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players were accused of “losing on purpose,” i.e. fixing the outcome of, the World Series, so the Cincinnati Reds would win and the players would earn gambling payouts. The Black Sox Eight, as they were called, cheated at America’s Pastime, tore out the hearts of their fans, and were eventually all banned from professional baseball and the Hall of Fame. They became a forerunner of Cincinnati Reds major leagues hit leader Pete Rose’s sports betting and subsequent 1989 banishment for life from major league baseball and the Cooperstown Hall of Fame.
But with the US Supreme Court’s 2018 Murphy decision, resistance to sports wagering rapidly collapsed in the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL. The leagues took the bait hook, line, and sinker and at the speed of light began opening their businesses to legalized sports betting, including professional leagues investing in online gambling or fantasy sports websites.
By the end of 2021, online or in-person wagering was sanctioned in more than half the country. Revenue is skyrocketing. Professional leagues are not just going along with the wave, they “are evangelizing. And booming business means big changes for anyone who operates, plays, covers—or bets on—the games we love.”
In an astoundingly short decade, leading sports figures reversed then jettisoned their earlier concerns, platitudes, and policies regarding gambling’s threat to the integrity of sports. Why? Because culture had already dropped this idea, making it now possible for professional sports leagues to earn hundreds of millions more on the backs of their fans. If the fans don’t care, why should sports leagues remain gambling prudes?
Every major league and nearly all teams now have dozens of negotiated business partnerships with sportsbooks and gambling data companies and fill broadcasts with ubiquitous commercials for FanDuel and DraftKings.
FanDuel, 2009, and DraftKings, 2012, created daily online fantasy sports games with cash prizes sometimes as high as $2 million. So far, fantasy sports are legally considered games of skill - not chance - if they can be won by successfully utilizing superior knowledge of the players involved. So, fantasy sports sites are technically, i.e., legally, not defined as gambling. Yet pay-to-play sites take a piece of every payout, about $35 average per player per month.
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Sports wagering is still a key entry point to more gambling by adolescents and college students. Sports betting is like gambling kindergarten. Sports betting is the easiest and quickest way for children and youth to begin gambling because it taps into athletics opportunities that are literally “everywhere.” And because frequently, kids are emulating adults in their families who are already gambling on sports.
But gambling is not a sport, though people often think that it is. It’s a “game” that turns into a moral and financial vampire. Kids don’t always know that you can’t serve God and money, and adults are not doing much to teach them.
Sports wagering, like most gambling, especially lotteries, tend to “tax” the poor rather than those with higher incomes, becoming a burden on already financially stressed families.
And sports wagering robs the game of the sheer joy of competition, of its beauty, something sports has enjoyed back to the first Greek Olympics.
People who get in deep, whether via fantasy sports sites or social gambling, testify to the change in their attitudes about the game, which goes from who is best and who wins, to what-has-to-happen-for-me-to-make-good-on-my-bet? In other words, the focus shifts from athletics to money.
Sports betting is a direct threat to the integrity of free and fair competition between individuals or teams on the court, course, field, pitch, or any other sports format. Without the sense that competition is indeed fair, played by the rules of good sportsmanship such that the best man or best woman or best team wins, sports become a charade, a silly act like professional wrestling.
And let no one believe that somehow athletes, coaches, umpires and referees, have somehow today become morally stronger since the Black Sox. No one is above the overwhelming temptation money presents. Remember, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil,” (1 Tim. 6:10).
Sports wagering is a major threat to the integrity of athletic competition. It’s what one experienced gambler called “seasonal losing.”
Christians are getting sucked into the gambling vortex. Some say, “There’s no Bible verse against gambling” or “Hey, it’s my money.” But they forget that God requires us to be stewards of our time, talent, and treasure. He expects us to discern, to be a testimony to others, to handle our money in a way that honors him, and to never allow ourselves to be controlled by anything other than the Spirit of God. Christians riding along on this cultural wave have forgotten their theology and the record of church history.
Christians who gamble, particularly in sports wagering, are playing with fire. It’s almost impossible not to get burned, via debt, compulsive if not addictive behavior, loss of pleasure in sports, broken relationships and more.
Gambling in any form is little more than a time bomb in a pretty package.
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On May 14, 2018, the US Supreme Court ruled a 1992 ban on commercial sports betting violated the 10thAmendmentof the United States Constitution.
States are now free to pass laws allowing any sports betting most lucrative to them—and this is the real bottom line…states starting with New Jersey want their piece of an estimated $150 billion annual haul in illegal sports betting.
Until recently, the NCAA and professional leagues: NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, expressed a wariness of sports wagering. But now the MLB and NBA are opening the way to legalized sports betting, including professional leagues investing in online gambling or fantasy sports websites.
But sports betting is gambling kindergarten. It’s how young people most often start gambling.
Teens are nearly two and one-half times as likely to become compulsive gamblers as adults. Suicide rates are twice as high among teenagers with gambling problems.
Sports betting is the easiest and quickest way for children and youth to begin gambling because it taps into athletics opportunities that are “everywhere.” And because frequently they are emulating adults in their families who are already gambling on sports.
Christians are getting sucked into the gambling vortex. Some say, “There’s no Bible verse against gambling” or “Hey, it’s my money.” But they forget that God requires us to be stewards of our time, talent, and treasure. He expects us to discern, to be a testimony to others, to handle our money in a way that honors him, and to never allow ourselves to be controlled by other than the Spirit of God. Christians riding along on the cultural wave have forgotten their theology and the record of church history.
Christians who gamble, particularly ubiquitous sports wagering, are playing with fire. It’s almost impossible not to get burned, via debt, compulsive if not addictive behavior, loss of pleasure in sports, broken relationships and more.
Gambling is a slippery slope, and sports betting is the first rung on the slide.
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Fantasy sports websites have become a huge phenomenon in the past few years. So far, fantasy sports are legally considered games of skill - not chance - if they can be won by successfully utilizing superior knowledge of the players involved. But then again, pay-to-play sites take a piece of every payout, about $35 average per player per month.
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 included “carve out” language that clarified the legality of fantasy sports. By this definition, fantasy sports are not gambling.
FanDuel (2009) and Draftkings (2012) quickly became biggest online sites by using that carve-out language to create daily online fantasy sports games with cash prizes sometimes as high as $2 million. In 2017, the two accounted for about 90 percent of the $320 million in revenue generated by fantasy sports.
Already the NBA, NHL, and MLB invest in fantasy sports websites. More are coming.
So if fantasy sports is legally not gambling, can fantasy sports create addictive behaviors similar to what gambling can produce? Yes, people who get deeply into fantasy sports report the same kinds of time-consuming, compulsive, debt-inducing behavior as gambling in casinos. These fantasy fans talk about how their interest in sports was soon overwhelmed by their interest in the money.
For Christians, fantasy sports and its temptations are like anything else. If we conclude the activity is not sin as such, then we must assure our engagement is a right use of our time, talent, and treasure, for all of which God holds us accountable.
It’s possible to become addicted to just about anything. It gets back to the heart more than the activity. It’s God’s will that Christian submit themselves fully and only to the Spirit of God.
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May 14, 2018, in Murphy vs National Collegiate Athletic Association, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which banned commercial sports betting in most states, violated the 10thAmendment to the United States Constitution.
The Supreme Court majority argued the lawillegally empowered the federal government to order certain states to take specific actions to disallow sports gambling. In one opinion, the Supreme Court opened the biggest possible expansion of legalized betting in the US in years.
States are now set loose to pass laws allowing whatever sports betting seems most lucrative to them, and this is the real bottom line…states starting with New Jersey want their piece of an estimated $150 billion annual haul in illegal sports betting. By legalizing sports betting, or as proponents call it “regulating” sports betting, state legislatures get the chance to funnel funds to their own coffers. And no question there’s a lot of moola out there with legal and illegal sports wagering biggest per year with the run up to the Super Bowl and during March Madness.
So far, states are supposedly considering licensing a limited number of companies to offer sports betting, within a limited number of forums. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, and Mississippi will all likely open sports betting in the next twelve to twenty-four months. At this point, maybe 20 states are considering sports betting. More will jump on the new gravy train – for the record, gambling has been legal in Nevada since 1931, so even Nevada gambling houses will benefit as gambling goes mainstream.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has been the most stalwart in its opposition to legalized sports wagering. “Our highest priorities in any conversation about sports wagering are maintaining the integrity of competition and student-athlete well-being,” said Mark Emmert, NCAA president. “Sports wagering can adversely impact student-athletes and undermine the games they play. We are committed to ensuring that laws and regulations promote a safe and fair environment for the nearly half a million students who play college athletics.” Well said, but what now?
Along with the NCAA, at least until recently, professional leagues—NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL—have also been wary of sports wagering. They rightly remember the 1919 Black Sox scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players were accused of losing on purpose, i.e. fixing the outcome of, the World Series, so the Cincinnati Reds would win and the players would earn gambling payouts. The Black Sox Eight were all banned from professional baseball and the Hall of Fame, a forerunner of Cincinnati Reds major leagues hit leader Pete Rose’s sports betting and subsequent 1989 banishment for life from major league baseball and the Hall of Fame.
The NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL seemed to support upholding the 1992 PASPA, supposedly fearing for the integrity of their sports—a legitimate consideration—until the NBA and MLB waffled in the end. But this said, none of the professional leagues are really threatened financially by the ruling and may even gain from it.
And the MLB and NBA are open to legalized sports betting. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver became the first professional sports executive to suggest that sports betting should be legal. In November 2014, Silver wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times supporting sports wagering. MLB allows betting on Toronto Blue Jay games in Ontario. The NFL ignores betting on games played in London.
Fantasy sports sights have become a huge movement in the past five years. So far, fantasy sports are legally considered games of skill - not chance - if they can be won by successfully utilizing superior knowledge of the players involved. But pay-to-play sites take a piece of every payout, about $35 average per player per month.
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 included “carve out” language that clarified the legality of fantasy sports. It was passed by Congress and signed into law on October 13, 2006. FanDuel and Draftkings the biggest online sites.
FanDuel, 2009, and DraftKings, 2012, used that carve-out to create daily online fantasy sports games with cash prizes sometimes as high as $2 million. In 2017, the two accounted for about 90 percent of the $320 million in revenue generated by fantasy sports. Question now is, will fantasy sports players switch to online sports betting sites sure to be developed in the wake of the Murphy vs. NCAA ruling?
Already the NBA and NHL invest in fantasy sports (gambling?) websites—The NBA partnered with FanDuel, while Major League Baseball and the NHL joined DraftKings.
Sports betting is like gambling kindergarten. It’s the easiest and quickest way for children and youth to begin gambling because it taps into athletics opportunities that are ubiquitous. Sports wagering, like most gambling, especially lotteries, tend to “tax” the poor rather than those with higher incomes, becoming a burden on already financially stressed families. And sports wagering robs the game, the sheer joy of competition, of its beauty, something sports has enjoyed back to the first Greek Olympics and before. People who get in deep, whether via fantasy sports sites or social gambling, testify to the change in their attitudes about the game, which goes from who is best and who wins to what has to happen for me to make good on my bet?
Most importantly, sports betting is a direct threat to the integrity of free and fair competition between individuals or teams on the court, course, field, pitch, or any other sports format. Without the sense that competition is indeed fair, played by the rules of good sportsmanship such that the best man or best woman or best team wins, sports becomes a charade, a silly act like professional wrestling. Sports becomes a joke.
And let no one believe that somehow athletes, coaches, umpires and referees today have somehow become morally stronger since the Black Sox. No one is above the overwhelming temptation money presents. Murphy vs. NCAA was ill-advised to say the least, and our culture and many families will pay the price.
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Gambling continues to plaque our society and my use of a word like "plague" gives away my perspective. Gambling is not a good thing in any way, shape, or form. It does not produce; it only takes. It does not build up; it tears down. Gambling is presented as "gaming," yet it's impact upon long-term gamblers, many who become "problem gamblers," is anything but fun and games.
Ironically, no one knows this better than serious gamblers who will tell you, as they have me, "No one wins at gambling." In fact, likely the greatest cynics about gambling are those who operate casinos in places like Las Vegas. Their comments are devastating about the people they see come and go, people who lose not only their money but often their self-respect. This is true even if the people doing the losing are "Whales," the wealthy big fish the casinos like to hook because they lose so much and lose often.
Gambling is a time bomb in a pretty package. It may tick slowly for a given person, but it does tick and it will someday go off.
All this makes it especially perplexing to hear about Christians gambling or to hear some of them defend the practice as just so much harmless entertainment. With them I must respectfully disagree. Gambling is a no-win proposition that undermines first a bank account, then social and/or professional relationships, then a life. And there is much in Scripture that speaks if not "about" gambling than certianly "to" gambling.
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