Brendan Dwyer
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162 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 12 Jun
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Professor Brendan Dwyer says that the legalization of sports betting in America, it's changed the entire sports industry.
Ideas about predicting and betting on the future.
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You just don't know what you're going to find.
It was the FIFA World Cup in Doha, Qatar.
So it was in November.
Which means my students were here, they were in our workroom, and they were huddled around a laptop.
They were watching Morocco and Belgium.
which is a very unconventional game for these students to watch because they weren't from Morocco or Belgium.
But these students were like enthralled by this game.
And as the game was going on, more students were starting to gather around.
And it was not a knockout round game.
It was really not a semifinal or a final.
It was an interesting game, but we're talking second half.
It's not the last couple minutes.
But each moment, they were yelling and screaming and getting upset.
I found that they were getting upset mainly at the referee.
more than they were getting upset at a missed shot or a missed pass or a missed play by one of the players.
That's when it was like, what are you guys cheering about?
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