The Mixed Messaging of Professional Leagues Embracing Sports Betting

Omar Zahran
7 min readMay 30, 2023

Your favorite professional sports league wants you to bet on games, and it wants you to know that it loves gambling…except for the people that work and play for their teams

When I was in college, I had a marketing professor that went on a bit of a tangent on advertising. One of my classmates brought up a point about the idea of “sex sells” as a…

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