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March Madness: With gambling legal in eight states, who really wins?

  • Written by John Affleck, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Pennsylvania State University
March Madness: With gambling legal in eight states, who really wins?

The odds of more legal betting are good. AP Photo/John Locher

March means springtime, but also breathless headlines of Cinderellas, busted brackets and buzzer beaters.

This year, it’ll also include talk of “sharps,” “handles” and “point spreads,” as millions more Americans are able to openly wager for the...

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