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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by fidotron on Friday September 27, 2024 @07:21AM (#41669014)
This only truly works if sports gambling is illegal globally. The reason this doesn't apply too much with the US is foreign interest in US sport is limited.

For example http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/426092.stm is why british people of a certain age all know the phrase "Malaysian gambling syndicates" and associate it with random blackouts.

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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by throwaway2037 on Friday September 27, 2024 @10:00AM (#41670591)
The US has pretty strict laws against its citizens from gambling on the Internet. Other countries could pass similar laws for their own citizens.

    > foreign interest in US sport is limited.
I am pretty sure that American baseball is very popular in the Carribbean and Japan. And American basketball is very popular in China due to the legacy of Yao Ming.
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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by astura on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:57PM (#41674309)
Japan has their own baseball league, Nippon Professional Baseball, I don't think they care about the MLB very much.
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