84% support stricter oversight of gambling in pro sports.

One of the first polls showing how gambling scandals are changing how fans watch, trust and care about sports.

Full results: www.sacredheart.edu/media/shu-me...

The gambling ad backlash is real.

68% of gamblers say sports betting advertising encourages risky or unethical behavior.

This is from people who already gamble on sports, not the general public.

Accountability is completely split:

• 47% blame players/coaches
• 20% blame leagues
• 13% blame sportsbooks

Younger gamblers are much more likely to blame betting platforms than older ones. Generational fault line.

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Gambling addiction is a public health crisis, but it's not treated that way yet.

What will it take for it to get there?

One day, it will be and people will ask: how did things get so bad?

I've watched friends spiral into gambling debt.

I've seen how quickly betting replaces joy.
And I've watched it hollow out how people connect to sports, replacing community with isolation and shame.

Our culture can't tell real stories about sports without talking about addiction, mental health, and what this industry is doing to people.

But most media can't tell that story honestly because they're in business with the very companies fueling the crisis.

Sports media helped normalize this.

Not just by promoting gambling, but by failing to ask real questions.

What does it mean when joy in sports is replaced by odds?

Does "fan engagement" just mean keeping people watching bad games and keeping ratings up as cable collapses?

There's a casino in your pocket.

So much of sports media is framed around gambling language.

The losses are invisible until it's too late.

And when someone spirals, whether it's a fan, a coach, or a player, we act like they're uniquely broken instead of asking how we got here.

When someone gets suspended for gambling, the public reaction is often moralizing.

"How could they be so stupid?"
"What an idiot."

But this isn't just about choices. This is what addiction looks like when it's been rebranded as content.

The Red Sox have been dysfunctional as Craig Breslow has boxed out longtime voices from the Theo Epstein era.

Breslow recently fired scouting supervisor Craig Moesche after he said "Thanks, Bres, you f--king stiff" on a Zoom hot mic. sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...