.jarvisdeberry: We should be alarmed at arrangements between universities and online sports booking companies.
,” according to that report, “and by year-end 2021, there were only 155. Similarly, in 2009 these partnerships represented over 2 million credit card accounts, and in 2021 that number was closer to 500,000.” It was right for Congress to protect young people from predatory credit card companies back then. And it would be right for Congress to protect them from online sports booking companies today.
At a very minimum Congress should make sure we can find out what universities are getting in exchange for selling out their students. As The New York Times points out, the details of such partnerships are often secret and not subject to public records requests because the deals are made between the sports wagering companies and the private companies that market a university’s athletic programs.
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