Earlier this week, at lunch time, Lester Munsan can be erected in front of a large -scale convenience, not on the field, but near the stadium, which became an active part of the ballpark. And tells Munson to hear this, a dangerous place.
It is called Draftings Sportsbook, and it was a very strange place to find this journalist and lawyer as it is one of the most emotional anti-Jua voices in this fast-wandering country.
Munsan said, “I have been a lifelong fan of the cub, and instead of entering a commercial deal instead of the team, the team will spend his money on a pitcher or power hitter instead of the team,” Munsan said how Cubs and cubs and how NBA, NHL, NCAA and most other Sports League have entered financial participation with sports betting operations.
He will tell you that he has never been a gambler, but he understands the addiction and has seen his victims. It is from a time when people can make a condition with their local bartender, the person who drove the newsstand on the track. It can be illegal but it happened in the shadow of society. “Who hurts?” Was the attitude.
Then Horse Racing, Vegas, Atlantic City, Lottery came … I have tasted them all.
All this changed in May 2018, when the Supreme Court announced that the professional and amateur sports protection act, which was essentially limited to a state, Nevada, for 25 years, was limited in Nevada, was unconstitutional. Sports left independent states to chart their own courses for gambling. Most took advantage of 38 states and Washington, DC, offered sports betting, waiting for law with other states that would allow sports gambling and casinos.
“Many warn that legitimate gambling will change the nature of all sports events,” Munsan said. “Now teams are partnered with large betting outfits – among the most prominent drafts and fanduel – in business deals and politicians have been blinded with revenue dreams.”
Munsan is talking about this in front of the meetings of such local organizations, in front of the meetings of local organizations such as Wafer Foundation, Foundation, Fortnight and Montgomery Place Retirement Facility in Hyde Park. Earlier this month, he spoke a vibrant, enlightening and slightly more dangerous with the title “The Menus of Sports Gambling” at the first Friday club at the Union League Club in Loop at the Union League Club. (This venerable series of talks characteristic of writers, newspapers, politicians and newsmakers was created by John Cusec, who was a retired priest of Old St. Pat; followed by Jahmal Cole from Block, My Hood, My City.)
“Gambling is uncontrolled and irregular,” cusec told me after Munsan’s talk. “We are reminded that sports gambling is advertised or promoted anywhere, and you need 21 years to gamble. But with the innumerable of a cell phone and websites in your hand, a 9 -year -old child can bet. Imagine the addiction that will soon be between us and our families. ,
Even those who know Munsan are influenced by the details of their long and energetic career, including being enlarged in Glenn Elin; Graduate from Princeton University; Working as a news reporter for bygone daily news; Earning a law degree from the University of Chicago; Practicing the law and serving as the chairman of the Duppage County Bar Association; To join the employees of the National Sports Daily, it is generally referred to as only an ambitious sports-focused newspaper, which blows money during his brief life (January 1990 to June 1991). He became a senior writer/legal analyst at Sports Illustrated and then ESPN and ESPN.com, and was a frequent guests on radio and TV.
He was a semi-niyal on the cigar-mok, which was choking “sportswits on TV”, which was a decade later in 1975, a decade later, a decade later, a decade later with Sportswits Bill Glison, Bill Jaus, Rick Telnder and Ben Bentley with WGN Radio by 2000 by 2000. The show started as. ,
Munsan is now an independent writer. His beet is the dark side of the game, “working in shadow” covers crimes, scams, drugs, violence, money, celebrity, sex, race, gender, greed, court decisions and government functions in the sports industry.
As he is in a person, his work has ever been intelligent and attractive.
He remains freshly frank, saying, “There is no such thing as a smart bet.” … It is an industry based on drug addiction. “He knows about addiction, telling me that he is” quiet for 42 years “. He never gambled,” never played cards, never drawn a slot machine, “he says.
The Chicago can claim one of the most infamous scams in the history of the game, the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. It has been the subject of many books, such as “eight main out”, which gave birth to a 1988 film of the same name. In short, it included eight members of the White Sox, who was accused of throwing a world chain against Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money from a group of gamblers. Arnold “chik” rhinoceros, George “Buck”, Oscar “Happy” Failsch, Charles “Sweda” Risburg, Fred McMulin, Eddie Sisote, Cloud “Lefty” Lefty “Williams and, the most famous,” Sholes “Joe Jackson).
A Chicago Grand Jury convicted the players in late October 1920 and however, all were acquitted in a public testing on August 2, 1921, Baseball Commissioner Kennsaw Mountain Landis permanently permanent life from professional baseball the next day All eight were banned.
What Munasan harasses is not only the explosive growth and access of sports gambling, but also how it targets the weakest people, saying, “It is difficult to avoid a large -scale advertising campaign.” 1 trillion dollars a year. ,
“Now there are 14 places to legally bet on sports across the state,” they say. “The numbers are terrible. Everyone wants The focus is at the next stake and while some people can manage their betting, there are many, many people who suffer, part of a vicious cycle, pursuing money to them that they essentially lose, one Dig deep into the financial holes. ,
He was largely shaken by the death of Judith, his wife of 55 years in 2020. He has moved from the western suburbs to the city. He reads five newspapers in a day and closely contacts his two big sons and their families. He tells me that Americans put “close to $ 119 billion in 2023” and it would be around $ 150 billion in 2024. “Then he moved towards his car towards the east.
Across the road, an old man was fiercely pulling on one of the doors of the drafts. “What’s the nonsense?” He shouted. I told her that the place would not open until he sees his watch at 3 pm. He shrunk at 1:25 pm. It was cold outside, but, “I can wait,” he said. “I can wait.”