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☆ Sports Leagues Bet on Gambling. Now They’re Facing Its Risks.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Lauren Hirsch | Ephrat Livni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The incidents have highlighted a trade-off that professional sports leagues made when they embraced gambling. Leagues have signed lucrative marketing deals with betting apps like FanDuel and DraftKings and use gambling to amp up fan engagement. “The risk is that the game becomes like professional wrestling — which is rigged. And nobody bets on professional wrestling,” said Fay Vincent, the M.L.B. “And if baseball becomes professional entertainment the way wrestling is, it’s dead.”

Persons: ”, Fay Vincent Organizations: Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, Leagues

☆ Old Age Is Like a Debenture
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Fay Vincent | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A friend and I both turn 85 this year. His life-expectancy prediction may be generous, as the actuarial number is closer to 6 years. It is important to know when and how to leave each stage of life. Macbeth laments: “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more. It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.”

☆ Less ‘Joe,’ More ‘Mr. President’
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Fay Vincent | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

There he was, on the hurricane-ravaged streets of Fort Myers Beach, Fla., the president of the United States, saying: No one effs with a Biden. I don’t use quotation marks because he used an unprintable word my mother taught me is “vulgar.”In ancient Rome, where formal Latin was spoken only by the educated class and written by the likes of Cicero, the street language was called the “vulgate” because it was the common tongue. By the fourth century, there was even a Bible translation in the vulgate.

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