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Resources
Stop Betting Sports aims to provide a wide ranging set of resources for everyone to access.
Watch, read and explore evidence-informed perspectives on sports betting, gambling harm, prevention, recovery and public health.
The Sunday Project
Weekly live conversation on gambling behavior, habits, and recovery. We talk about real experiences, patterns, and how people get pulled in, and how they get out.
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Watch
Documentaries, explainers and public discussion about the rise of sports betting and its impact.
FRONTLINE: The Fantasy Sports Gamble (full documentary)
CBS Reports: Raising the Stakes: America’s Growing Sports Gambling Addiction
Last Week Tonight: Sports Betting (HBO / John Oliver)
News explainer: “Sports betting boom fuels concerns over problem gambling” (video segment)
Latest articles
“I Don’t Know You, But I Know You”: Bob’s Story
It's late in the fourth quarter. Your team is losing, but that doesn't matter anymore. You've got a prop bet on the quarterback's completions, a live bet on the next field goal, and another game starting in twenty minutes. When it's over, a friend asks, "Did they...
Profit Over Protection: What a ProPublica Investigation Reveals About Sportsbooks and Problem Gambling
On the morning of this week's Sunday Project, Marc Lefkowitz sat down to breakfast with nine men in gambling treatment. Marc has worked in the gambling field for more than 30 years and has been in his own recovery for over 43. He asked each of them the same question:...
Collecting or Chasing? What Parents Need to Know About Card Collecting and Gambling
Your son loves Pokémon cards. Or baseball cards. He watches YouTubers open packs, talks about "hits" and keeps asking for money for one more box. It looks like a harmless hobby and for many kids it is. But for some, collecting has quietly turned into something closer...
Faster, Smarter, Harder to Stop: How Betting Changed
Gambling used to come with built-in pauses. A bet placed before kickoff was fixed until the final whistle, three hours later. At the track, there were 25 minutes between races. Betting again meant waiting for the next game or the next race and that wait was a chance...
Read
Recent reporting on gambling harm, public health concerns and the changing sports betting landscape.
Recent reporting (2025–Jan 2026)
- Harvard Gazette: “Sports betting worries grow as wagers skyrocket” (Jan 6, 2026)
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (magazine): “As Online Betting Surges, So Does Risk of Addiction” (Dec 19, 2025)
- STAT: “The rise of sports betting is a growing public health crisis” (Nov 11, 2025)
- Center for Health Journalism: “The explosion of sports betting… fueling a new public health crisis” (Jan 5, 2026)
- USC Annenberg Media: “A mobile casino in your pocket…” (Jan 23, 2026)
Research / expert perspective
- NIDA (Nora Volkow): “Gambling disorder in the age of mobile sports betting” (Nov 2025)
- National Council on Problem Gambling: survey highlights on men’s risk and growth in online gambling participation (2024 findings; posted Jul 2025)
- Reuters: Gambler sentenced to 2 years in prison in NBA betting scandal
- AP News: Sports betting, Missouri college prop bets
- Reuters: Kalshi cannot operate sports prediction market in Massachusetts, judge rules
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