This brings dichotomy a whole new meaning infusing betting right into its ESPN sports application(s)! It seems seamless and innocent especially placing a tab for “Fantasy” league right next to it, but it is terrible for the youths and doesn’t allow them an innocent upbringing or brought up in proper perspective! I can understand that gambling may have ‘helped’ the industry to get out of the coronavirus pandemic and increase revenues, but where and when did we change the values of the undue influence. And When are we going to change back, not continue in the wrong direction.

ESPN has been trying to charge to use their app(lication) since 2010, where they would hide and hold all the rights to college stats, so you would have to pay for using the application to get the information. This was in fact an early predecessor for this gambling notion because the biggest ‘longshot’ winners often bet on college sports and cover the line. They will often bet like $100-$500 on like five or six different college games to drastically increase their odds to 500-1000% So they would typically bet $200, and with a solid ticket parlay clean sheet end up with about $2000. Keep in mind that one wrong selection, and you lose $200.