Sports leagues play both sides with gambling tie-ins | Letters

Star-Ledger letters to the editor

Star-Ledger letters to the editor

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Professional sports’ promotion of gambling websites in leagues that have heavily and severely sanctioned players for gambling is disingenuous and hypocritical.

There are players who have been banned for gambling activities in those sports who now see league commissioners actively promoting sports gambling, including designating certain for-profit companies as the “official” gambling operations of their sport.

    
                    

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