The Media Front: All the News That’s Fit to Predict

When watching SportsCenter, or a game, I occasionally start droning on to my son about Pete Rose. 

That’s because my formative years of baseball fandom were shaped in part by the Pete Rose betting scandal and movies revisiting the Black Sox scandal. And despite gambling now being baked into sports coverage, with leagues and media companies in business with sportsbooks, I’m still struck as betting lines flash across the screen. Or by the umpteenth ad for DraftKings.

I was thinking...