Brendan Dwyer

And the students won.

They picked the over and they won the over.

You know, this is a growing trend in sport fandom.

We're not just watching the wins and losses.

Now we're watching an additional game within that with the sports betting apps and now with the prediction markets.

We can always find a way to up the ante.

It's not just sitting back watching the game for, you know, the beauty of the game.

By the end of 2028, more of the world's intellectual capacity could reside inside of data centers than outside of them.

Some sort of sports betting has been around in the United States forever.

Whether it's been legalized or not, you know, there's been at a bookie or it's been in a bar, Las Vegas or New Jersey, horse racing that would kind of get close to sports, but weren't really the traditional sports betting as we know now.

The money lines, the parlays, all the fun, the interactive apps that make it scarily easy to bet.

As fantasy sports became more popular in the early part of the 2000s, it started to knock down our preconceived notions about risk and reward and interactivity of fan engagement.

You put money down at the beginning of the year, you compete against your friends and family, and you may get money back out.

If you're talking about football, you put money down in August, you may get money back in January if your season-long fantasy team plays well.

And through a number of tests, they realized this is probably not gambling.

So it got a carve out from a number of gambling laws across the country.

And it changed the narrative on our broadcasts where people were talking about daily fantasy sports, talking about odds.

But most importantly, it really kind of tested the water from a consumer perspective, a cultural perspective.

And we found out that our society had a bit more of a favorable association with betting.

A brief history.