Christine Brennan was one of the first female NFL beat writers — at a time where they really had to deal with A Lot — and has covered women’s sports on big platforms longer than basically everyone. This statement is pretty crazy given her body of work.

"For the past six years, the US has essentially been running a large-scale field study on what happens when you put instant access to legal betting markets in people’s pockets." Sports Betting Apps Are Even More Toxic Than You Thought By Ira Boudway bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Statement in response to WNBPA:

It’s mind-blowing to someone in the points and miles world that this is the business newsletter you would go out of your way to read. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

sports betting is a like a lot of commercial markets for addictive substances or experiences: most people only buy a little and are fine (if not very profitable), while the money all comes from a small portion of addicts who ruin their lives

I wrote about everybody’s favorite part of sports: collective bargaining bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

If only…bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Can’t imagine how that would work: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A piece discussing why NIL payments aren’t a good substitute for paying college athletes for their actual work: playing their sport. And why collective bargaining is needed to create a sustainable model for college athletics.

"Those who said all this awareness would kill football were wrong," Chris Nowinski, a leading advocate on the issue of brain injuries in sports for nearly two decades, told me. “Football continues to be more popular in just about every measurable way.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The NCAA and Power Four conferences are spending millions on lobbying efforts in DC. Is Congressional help coming? “It’s like a bad end to a ‘Scooby-Doo’ episode. [It’s like], ‘It’d all be OK if it wasn’t for these meddling kids getting paid.’” 🔗 shorturl.at/Lb70a

A blitz of Facebook ads by what poses as a pro-Harris group, but is secretly a front for a pro-Trump dark money group funded by Elon Musk to misrepresent Harris's views to swing-state voters, does not appear to violate Meta's ad transparency policies.

“The only thing we know at this point is that the terrain has changed,” said Chris Grove, a gambling industry analyst at Eilers, “The rest of the story we’re all going to find out together.” More from me on prediction markets at Bloomberg via Ira Boudway bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The House settlement’s plan to review college athlete NIL deals with “associated entities” for fair market value has a number of issues. Some logistical (athletes don’t/won’t disclose all deals) & some legal (antitrust law). Thanks to Ira Boudway for reaching out for my thoughts.