![]() ![]() In addition to this shift to verbal posture, the networks broadcasting the games will provide more gambling information in pregame shows, “ but only to help contextualize game analysis or a broader storyline. “So what I would do through the years is I would come in the back door, sometimes I would come in the side door, and now I guess they’re allowing me to come in the front door, which is not as much fun as doing it subtly,” Michaels told the Associated Press last year. Those same play-by-play personalities, like Al Michaels of NBC, have acknowledged their increased liberation to be more direct. ![]() In past NFL seasons, commentators coyly hinted at how a fourth quarter field goal might impact a teetering betting line. We should expect the same creeping presence of sports betting information when watching sports broadcasts too. The paper sought to inform both your pure love affair with your favorite team and your begrudging habit of making a bet against that same team with a local bookie. In most papers, betting information was relegated to a box on the outskirts of the page, signaling an uneasy yet conjoined relationship between sports journalism and gambling. Like me, maybe you spent decades scanning the daily newspaper and the sports page, with its hundreds of lines of agate, displaying scores and betting lines. CBS Sports and most other apps offer the same wagering details - sometimes on a homepage scoreboard that doesn’t require you even to click through to read about the game. You can also get “exclusive PickCenter analysis” with a subscription payment. On my phone, ESPN’s app offers a PickCenter, providing the run line, money line and over/under for the Royals game Friday against the Tampa Bay Rays. Supreme Court opened the door to nationwide sports gambling in 2018, betting odds have invaded every mainstream sports app. The visual landscape of watching sports - or even reading about them - will never be the same. Here are my notes about how sports has already changed with gambling on the scene - along with a forecast of coming changes. However, other changes will alter how we watch games and, most radically, who we root for. Some of these changes will be minor and cosmetic. And that machine will certainly change our state’s relationship with sports. ![]() When the Kansas Legislature approved sports gaming earlier this year, it triggered a complex multibillion dollar marketing and technology machine that is already whirring to life, even in advance of the start date. 1 in Kansas edges the state closer to a brave new world for sports fans, whether supporting the Jayhawks, Chiefs, Wildcats, Shockers, Royals or Sporting KC. Thursday’s announcement that sports betting will begin Sept. Eric Thomas directs the Kansas Scholastic Press Association and teaches visual journalism and photojournalism at the University of Kansas. Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. ![]()
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