Danny Funt

2 weeks ago | dannyfunt.substack.com | Danny Funt

MY BOOK,Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling, is available for preorder!It won’t be published until January 2026, but preorders, I’ve learned, are crucial to a book’s success. It signals interest to retailers, critics, etc., which can lead them to take the book more seriously. I’d be enormously grateful if you’d consider preordering my book through any of the sellers linked on Simon & Schuster’s website.

1 month ago | dannyfunt.substack.com | Danny Funt

IS OPTIMISM AN ASSET? That question might sound ridiculous, but certainly there are times when being hopeful is a liability, like when a person overestimates their odds of being able to drink and drive without getting pulled over or smoke cigarettes without developing lung cancer. On a lighter note, we celebrate optimism in sports, but also roll our eyes at the golfer who swings all his might hoping to clear a lake, only to see the shot end with an inevitable splash.

Jan 4, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Danny Funt

What is TGL? Think indoor golf, in prime time, fronted by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, and geared toward television audiences. TGL, a new golf league featuring 24 of the world's top players - including Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, two of the venture's founders - devoted years of planning and tens of millions of dollars to a mission: Make golf viable for prime-time TV, with quick-moving matches that fit into tight two-hour windows.

Sep 14, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Danny Funt

Home / SportBy Danny FuntWashington Post·15 Sep, 2024 01:00 AM10 mins to readSaveShare this articleReminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read. Legal sports betting was supposed to put the black market out of business. Instead, even as regulated sportsbooks have become a ubiquitous part of the United States sports landscape, unsanctioned bookmakers continue to attract billions of dollars annually from Americans.

Sep 12, 2024 | yahoo.com | Danny Funt

Legal sports betting was supposed to put the black market out of business. Instead, even as regulated sportsbooks have become an ubiquitous part of the U.S. sports landscape, unsanctioned bookmakers continue to attract billions of dollars annually from Americans. That’s why regulators in six states where sports betting is legal recently ordered Bovada, a prominent offshore sportsbook based in Curaçao, to stop taking online bets from residents.