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The Vegas-ization of Everything Is Strangling Professional Sports
Almost every professional athlete hopes to be famous one day—to shatter records and break streaks; to enshrine themselves in their sport’s history. On Wednesday, Jontay Porter achieved fame in perhaps the most ignominious way he could: He became the first athlete in the North American major leagues to receive a lifetime ban for gambling since Major League Baseball excommunicated Pete Rose, a player-manager for the Cincinnati Reds, in 1989.Porter, a benchwarmer on the NBA’s Toronto Raptors, received the ban for what the league described as a series of bets on NBA games this spring that he placed through intermediaries. “There is nothing more important than protecting the integrity of NBA comp

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