Sports Gambling Goes Mainstream

Gambling on sports wasn’t something you talked about in the open because it seemed sort of sleazy. Now it has gone mainstream and brings in $400 billion dollars annually. One of the reasons could be that you can bet anywhere because of the internet. You no longer have to travel out of state to hit that horse race. You can do it from the privacy of your own home. Although in many states different forms of gambling is illegal, that doesn’t seem to stop most of the gamblers and there isn’t much that police can do about it.

Including Tennessee. All gambling except the state lottery is illegal here, but police know they can’t fully control sports betting or poker. “People enjoy betting,” said Sgt. Steve Reed of the Nashville Metro Police Gambling Control Unit. “You have people betting in this city every day.”