Sports are deeply rooted in our nation's history. Lacrosse has been played in North America for more than a thousand years. Basketball is woven into all aspects of our more recent cultural narrative. And yes, from the beginning, gambling has always been a part of our relationship with sports.
| Where: | Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142, Wheelchair accessible)    |
| When: | Sat, Mar 14, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Koffler/Commons (following presentation) |
| Genre: | Sports |
| Moderator: | Tony Perkins |
Danny Funt's look at sports betting, "Everybody Loses:The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling," is a roller coaster ride into the world of gambling. Explosive interviews with power players of Fan Duel, DraftKings and other betting sites show the intricacies used to lure gamblers....
Keith O'Brien is The New York Times bestselling author of "Charlie Hustle," "Paradise Falls," "Fly Girls," and "Outside Shot." He has won the 2025 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld award for biography, has been a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, NPR, and This American Life....
A senior writer at Sports Illustrated from 1994-2019, Scott Price has written five books, including, most recently, "The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse." It is a wide-ranging examination of the continent's oldest and most representative sport....
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