Danny Funt
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602 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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You know, I've been covering it for several years, mainly for the Washington Post, and I felt like I was scratching the surface.
I felt like two big things were not answered to my satisfaction.
One was why did the leagues and so many politicians have this profound change of heart, right?
They gave certain surface level explanations.
I didn't find that totally satisfying.
I felt like there had to be more to the story that hadn't been reported.
Absolutely.
It's not distant history.
Not only has players or coaches betting been the cardinal sin in sports, but even beyond that, just the influence that gambling, if it were expanded outside Nevada, would have was referred to as an evil barely a decade ago by commissioners of sports.
I remember...
The commissioner of Major League Baseball at the hearings in 1992, when Congress was considering this federal ban on bookmaking, was asked if the leagues would ever do business with gambling operators.
And he said, that would make a mockery of my office.
Is that Faye Vincent?
Yes, indeed.
Yeah, who spoke with me shortly before his passing.
that you know so what did it cease being an evil did you learn better uh did the calculus change i i didn't feel like they had been forthcoming about that and i wanted to understand their thinking the other thing that motivated the book was these companies are now the sports books themselves are now household names obviously but they don't give a lot of interviews they're very secretive uh in all sorts of ways and i really wanted to spend the time to cultivate sources within those companies to understand
how they think about customers and how they think about their business and if they have any misgivings about how things are going.
And that I felt was something I was very glad to succeed with, was talking to dozens and dozens of people who worked in the business.
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