Back in the 1950s, there was the Kefauver Committee, which was a famous 13-, 14-city tour by Senator Estes Kefauver, and he went around and he interviewed a number of organized crime figures.
In the U.S., we’ve gone through different waves of how we view gambling, both sports betting and gambling more broadly.Īfter World War II, there were big concerns about gambling and its connection to organized crime. So, sports and gambling have always been connected. Sports betting and sports are probably a little bit of chicken-egg: What came first? We can look back to ancient Greece-there was betting back then. Obviously, sports betting is not a new thing.
