Who Wins in the Ubiquitous New World of Mainstream Sports Betting?

Nineteenth-century Russian poet Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin said of gambling: “Play interests me very much, but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.” For more than 2,000 years, gambling was considered just such a vice — perhaps a tolerable sin compared to murder, theft, or adultery — but still a destructive failure of character. Until