How DraftKings and FanDuel engineer addiction

Jonathan Cohen is not in recovery. He is a historian, and his book Losing Big traces how legalised sports betting swept America and what it has actually cost. What he found in the research confirms everything those of us who lived it already knew.

He explains how sportsbooks design for compulsion, why gambling went from a frat-house habit to a seventh-grade one inside a decade, and why a twenty-two-year-old brain is not biologically equipped to stop. Responsible gambling, as the industry means it, puts the blame on the individual by design.

We cover the Ohtani scandal, the college athlete cases the leagues saw coming, and the one simple guardrail that would save thousands of lives and will never be allowed.