The N.Y. DAILY NEWS goes with, "The right bet on sports gambling: National regulation makes sense." Sports betting, which has "exploded in America in recent years" is "finally getting the thorough inspection it deserves from Congress." May the "heightened scrutiny lead to smart new laws making it harder to take advantage of compulsive bettors who have trouble on their own finding the line between fun and dangerous obsession." In the last quarter alone, Americans bet more than $30B on sports. In-game bets, in which people "bet second to second on what might happen next, are up, as are all kinds of bizarre, exotic prop bets." The National Council on Problem Gambling estimates that 2.5 million people per year "struggle with compulsive gambling; there were nearly 15,000 bets per second placed online in the last Super Bowl." There need to be "robust controls that make it harder for people, and especially vulnerable people, to get sucked into the vortex."
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