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The legalization and ease of online sports betting is fueling a rise in gambling disorders among young people.
When the US Supreme Court legalized sports betting, states were quick to get in on the action. But as lawmakers grow reliant on taxes from betting, what do they owe problem gamblers?
March Madness might look very different if not for the Supreme Court.
All those Cinderella stories, buzzer-beating finishes and wild cheering sections have a high price tag – for the climate.
As sports betting becomes more prevalent, so do the risks to college athletes, gaming experts argue.
States and universities have passed many rules governing what types of name, image and likeness deals athletes can sign. Most are innocuous, but three may violate their First Amendment rights.
A recent study found that an unexpected run in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament can boost enrollment.
A study shows that a select group of NBA players really do go on hot streaks by making more shots in a row than statistics suggest they should.
Watching the chances of victory change injects life into sports, both real and fantasy.
Why are three-pointer shots from the corner more efficient than the ones above the break? The answer: More than 90 percent of corner three-point shots are assisted.
About 47 million adults in the US are expected to gamble on March Madness this year. A growing share of the bets will actually be legal.
Taking part in the NCAA tournament tends to make a bigger difference for public universities that garner relatively few donations.
In the 1950s, NCAA Executive Director Walter Byers coined the term ‘student-athlete,’ which laid the groundwork for the organization to reap the windfall from its annual basketball tournament.
Binge drinking rises during March Madness among male college students who attend schools that made it to the men’s basketball tournament. Researchers take a deeper look at the reasons why.
Can a computer model correctly predict the results of the first round in this year’s tournament? These mathematicians think so.
Every March, millions of Americans watch the NCAA’s annual college basketball tournament, while millions more fill in brackets to win their office pool.
A basketball computer program simulates millions of trajectories in search of the ideal shot.
For 30 years, sports fans have been told to forget about streaks because the ‘hot hand’ is a fallacy. But a reanalysis says not so fast: Statistics show players really are in the zone sometimes.
March Mammal Madness, a tournament of imaginary contests between pairs of mammals, makes science irreverent and fun. The event has thousands of fans and is used in hundreds of classrooms.
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Associate Professor of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Dominican University
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Lecturer and M.A. Program Advisor, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
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Affiliate at IGIER and Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Universidad de Alicante
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Director for Behavioral Health Promotion and Applied Research, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor of Sociology, Villanova University
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Associate Professor of Economics, Washington State University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Business Administration, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, Penn State
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Ph.D Candidate in Mathematics, The Ohio State University
