Inside the explosive growth of sports betting
Journalist McKay Coppins spent an NFL season gambling $10,000 provided by The Atlantic to explore the societal and personal costs of America's sports betting explosion, only to lose nearly all of it and confront the psychological grip of gambling. His investigation reveals a rapidly expan
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