From a story on CJR’s The Media Today by Betsy Morais headlined “ESPN’s Big Gamble”:

In 2018, the US Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act and lifted the gate to sports gambling across the country. Betting is now legal in thirty-four states, plus Washington, DC; in the past five years, according to the Washington Post, Americans have wagered more than two hundred billion dollars on sports.