How the South's Casinos Survived the First College Football Saturday With Legal Sports Betting
Posted Sep 11, 2018
Welcome to legalized sports betting in the Deep South, where gambling on sports has been an illegal tradition stretching back, at least in Biloxi, nearly a century. It has emerged from the shadows, playing out in smoky, dimly lit gambling meccas, with marble countertops and colorful carpeting, where betting sheets share tabletops with fancy cocktails and fried food platters.
(Sports Illustrated)
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