2024-12-03
38 分钟One of the biggest stories in sports may be happening off the field – and on betting apps. As 60 Minutes correspondent Jon Wertheim reported earlier this year, what was once done in the shadows is now as much a part of the spectator experience as hot dogs and foam fingers. Placing wagers on everything from point spreads to the color of gatorade bottles is now fully legal in most states. But the popularization of sports betting has brought a new wave of concern over gambling addiction – a condition that 60 Minutes has been covering since before it was officially recognized by the DSM. As we grapple with this new normal, we remember a series of stories from the from the 1970s and 80s – when Dan Rather and Harry Reasoner met an extreme compulsive gambler named Irving North whose addiction was destroying his family. We meet his son Larry today as he relives his experience with his father and their time with 60 Minutes. And Wertheim joins us to consider what the past might say about the future. For more episodes like this one, search for "60 Minutes: A Second Look" and follow the show, wherever you get your podcasts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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In 1969, when correspondent Harry Reasoner first covered the topic of gambling for 60 minutes, placing a bet on sports was just a bit more challenging than it is today.
In the 1990s, as Steve Kroft reported, it got easier to place a bet and the sports gambling networks were getting more sophisticated.
To try and avoid the heat, the billion dollar bookie came up with a new ploy.
He moved his operations offshore here to the Caribbean island nation of the Dominican Republic, where gambling is legal.
Sacco installed TV satellite dishes.
And to keep in touch with his clientele, Sacco arranged For toll free 800 numbers connected to AT&T in the United States.
Toll free numbers, of course, were supplanted by the World Wide Web.
As Morley Safer noted, it's now possible.
To do it from the comfort of.
Your home, where all you have to.
Do is point and click.
The methods evolved, but like other kinds of gambling, sports betting mostly stayed on the periphery of society.
There was such a stigma attached to gambling and you can have fun with your buddies and do it in Vegas, but otherwise it was sort of sub rosa.