{"id":2417,"date":"2024-06-30T05:52:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T05:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/the-sure-bet-sports-gambling-will-become-an-even-bigger-player-researcher-says\/"},"modified":"2024-06-30T05:52:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T05:52:46","slug":"the-sure-bet-sports-gambling-will-become-an-even-bigger-player-researcher-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/the-sure-bet-sports-gambling-will-become-an-even-bigger-player-researcher-says\/","title":{"rendered":"The sure bet? Sports gambling will become an even bigger player, researcher says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Dwyer, Ph.D., is director of research and distance learning at VCU&#8217;s Center for Sport Leadership. Credit: Thomas Kojcsich, Enterprise Marketing and Communications Not long ago\u20141992, in fact\u2014Congress passed a bill that essentially blocked sports betting nationwide, save for a few states. The law was ruled unconstitutional in 2018, and the scene changed quickly: Last year, Americans legally wagered nearly $120 billion on sporting events. Brendan Dwyer, Ph.D., is director of research and distance learning at Virginia Commonwealth University&#8217;s Center for Sport Leadership, whose acclaimed master&#8217;s program propels graduates in <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/the-sure-bet-sports-gambling-will-become-an-even-bigger-player-researcher-says\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Dwyer, Ph.D., is director of research and distance learning at VCU&#8217;s Center for Sport Leadership. Credit: Thomas Kojcsich, Enterprise Marketing and Communications Not long ago\u20141992, in fact\u2014Congress passed a bill that essentially blocked sports betting nationwide, save for a few states. The law was ruled unconstitutional in 2018, and the scene changed quickly: Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}