When I was a student at the University of Tennessee in the 1960s, a campus connection to the gambling syndicate in town would distribute betting cards during the fall football season. They paid $5 if you picked three winners of the upcoming games.
You soon realized that the goal was not to make money for you, but rather to take it from you. Yes, it was a form of gambling, and boy, how times have changed.
Before the Supreme Courts 2018 ruling in support of online gambling, the majority of Americans might have spent their entire lives without being subjected to the stench of online sports gambling, which is raking in more than $100 billion a year, according to investigated reports in The New York Times and The Washington Post.