"Several" college athletes are implicated in a mafia-backed betting ring

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Another day, another gambling indictment with clear connections to sports. But this one isn’t a product of the new age of legalized, normalized, and heavily monetized sports betting. It’s an old-school tale of a mob-backed gambling ring. Via David Purdum of ESPN.com, a member of the Lucchese crime family allegedly ran a nationwide illegal betting […]

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