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Welcome to Trendlines, your weekly installment of what’s trending up and what’s trending down in the world of sports.
This week, we’re talking about the biggest change to sports fandom in the last decade and arguably this century: Gambling.
It’s a topic that is at the top of the news now because of a provision in President Donald Trump’s recently passed “big, beautiful bill,” which could be detrimental to professional gamblers in the way that it taxes losses.
Indeed, there is a lot on the line whenever we talk about sports gambling. Betting on sports has gone from the back rooms to appearing seemingly everywhere on your…
