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Increased access to sports betting could mean increased risks for college students.
Ohio is over seven months into the legalization of sports betting. This new form of gambling was not within reach for most college-age students previously but is now right at their fingertips. Could this new accessibility have an impact on the next generation of young adults? Let’s start by taking a closer look at the landscape of sports betting on college campuses. According to a U.S. News Report article, one of the biggest factors of increased sports betting is due to university sports departments signing deals with sports betting companies. The New York Times reported that … Read More »
I am a Recovering Gambling Addict and I am Worried
In first-person essay for Maclean’s, Noah Vineberg laments rise of legalized sports betting Noah Vineberg started small, organizing sports pools in third grade among his friends. By the time he was a young teenager in Canada, he was gambling every day at a shopping mall where he could buy parlay-style tickets on sports events despite being underage. (The clerks never checked IDs.) As he explains in a first-person essay at Maclean’s, Vineberg got hooked on the rush, the anticipation of waiting for the games to end. He usually lost, … Read More »
The mind-blowing economics of gambling in Ohio — and the great peril of its expansion
Written by Leslie Kouba, at cleveland.com – link to the original article. CLEVELAND, Ohio – We all know sports betting became legal on January 1. We couldn’t not know. That’s because the Ohio Casino Control Commission decided to have a universal launch date, so the marketing was easy and everywhere all the time. I’m not a gambler. I think I’ve personally bought about four scratch-offs in my lifetime. But I do remember a time when the only way to wager (illegally) on live sports was through bookies, and Cleveland had … Read More »
