Sports Betting Has Gone Too Far

I hit the under on how many terrible puns I would make in the title

It is frighteningly easy to bet on sports.

Standing in the parking lot of MetLife Stadium waiting to enter the Notre Dame – Navy game and basking in the glow of tailgate beers, nothing seemed like a better idea to me than placing a bet on college football. The entire process of downloading DraftKings, logging in, and sending money to my account through Venmo took less time and effort than paying rent each month.

I am glad sports betting is legal. Prohibition is ineffective when the banned product can easily be illegally replicated, as shown by alcohol, marijuana, and the plethora of pre-legalization sports betting scandals. By the late turn of the millennium, as the rise of internet sports betting made it clear that even the arrest of every mafioso in the country would not be enough to close the books, it was obvious that the legal framework around sports gambling needed to change.

Thanks to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of…