New book by Danny Funt documents the meteoric — and questionable — rise of sports gambling

New book by Danny Funt documents the meteoric — and questionable — rise of sports gambling

LAS VEGAS — After Virginia legalized sports betting in 2021, Georgetown student Rob Minnick would put on a track suit and sneakers, leading friends to believe he was heading out for a jog.He’d lope less than a mile across the Key Bridge, into the Old Dominion state, enabling his cell phone to collect new-customer promotions from a sportsbook.Danny Funt recalls making that same trek, with classmates only a few years earlier, but for fast-food run…