On Thursday, the Justice Department announced that they had arrested some 30 people involved in illegal gambling—in particular, sports gambling. It is potentially the biggest sports gambling scandal since the college point-shaving scandal in the early 1950s.
One of those arrested, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, allegedly used inside information to set up fraudulent bets. In 2023, for example, Rozier is accused of letting gamblers know that he would fake an injury and leave a game early, so they could make hundreds of thousands of dollars. And some of that money allegedly wound up in Rozier’s pocket.
For decades, both the NCAA and professional sports leagues kept as far away from gambling as they could, fearing its corrupting…