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The NCAA wants to end careers over stat-betting while cashing checks from sportsbook partnerships. That is not an integrity policy. It is a market with one side holding all the risk.
By Nina Torres · 3 min read
Charlie Baker wants states to ban college player prop bets, and on that narrow question he's right. The problem is that a 54% handle increase doesn't yield to state-by-state lobbying. The integrity framework Baker needs exists at the federal level, and he keeps talking to the wrong room.
By Jax Moreno · 3 min read
Two MLS players just got lifetime bans for betting on a yellow card prop. The books built a product that one guy can cash alone, mid-game, with his elbow. Then everyone acts surprised when someone does exactly that.
By Nina Torres · 3 min read
The NIL clearinghouse got hit with legal pressure yesterday over rejected deals while Arch Manning earns $5.4 million and nobody can legally define what a prohibited payment looks like. This is not an enforcement problem. It is a taxonomy problem, and building rules on undefined terms produces exactly the chaos we are watching.
By Jax Moreno · 3 min read
Women's March Madness drew 8.6 million viewers for the 2025 title game without Caitlin Clark, up 89% from 2022. The 2025-26 regular season is already pulling 78% more viewers than a year ago. The market is pricing this like a bubble. The data says it's a floor.
By Nina Torres · 3 min read
NIL corrected a century of exploitation and put real money in athletes' hands for the first time. It also unleashed a lawless marketplace that is litigating itself into incoherence and hollowing out the locker room culture that made college sports worth caring about. Both things are true, and pretending otherwise is a failure of nerve.
By Rook Calloway · 4 min read