From a story on compactmag.com by Christopher Caldwell headlined “America’s Bad Bet on Sports Gambling”:

Central Michigan’s Chippewas faced the mighty Cowboys of Oklahoma State to open the college football season on Thursday night. Their last meeting, in 2016, produced one of the most heart-stopping endings in recent college football history. Down 27-24, with no time left on the clock, quarterback Cooper Rush completed a pass to Jesse Kroll at the 9-yard-line, where he was immediately smothered by a tackler. But not before he had flung a quick lateral to junior wide receiver Corey Willis, who began a footrace to the end zone alongside an Oklahoma State defender, wrestling his way along the goal line, falling sideways for a touchdown and a 30-27 victory, as the crowd in Stillwater looked on in shock. It was an upset—the Chippewas’ first win against a ranked opponent since the George H.W. Bush administration. It probably put Rush (now a Dallas Cowboy) in the National Football League.

From a New York Times opinion piece by Spencer Bokat-Lindell headlined “The Sports Gambling Gold Rush Is On. Should We Be Concerned?”:

From a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Daniel Lee headlined “Sports Leagues and TV Networks Like the Gambling Odds”:

Princeton, Indiana

We gambled a little at the Gibson County Ambulance Service in the late 1970s. Nothing serious, a bit of quarter and dollar poker between runs. An emergency medical technician I worked with did hit it big once. He turned up after the Kentucky Derby showing off a $600 roll he’d won on a long shot. Meanwhile, a pool room and lunch cafe on the Princeton square ran illegal sportsbooks. Word was that they played some more-serious poker there, too….