Is Your College Football Team Short of Cash? Sports Betting Can Help.

Louisiana lawmakers tried a novel strategy for raising revenue, a model that proponents say might work more broadly.

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Microbets, Parlays and Prop Bets: A Guide to the M.L.B. Gambling Scandal

Federal prosecutors say two pitchers for the Cleveland Guardians tipped off bettors about what pitches they would throw, setting up rigged “microbets.”

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Meet the Billionaire Trying to Save College Football From Itself

Cody Campbell, an oilman, has spent millions paying students to play football at Texas Tech. Now he worries that people like him are ruining college sports.

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New York Is the Center of Basketball. And Basketball Betting Scandals.

Point shaving. Gambling rings. Illegal poker games. Prosecutors in New York have seen it all.

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Riley Gaines Finished 5th. Now She Believes Victory Is in Her Grasp.

The former college swimmer has used her race against Lia Thomas, a trans athlete, to propel her career as an influential, and unsparing, activist.

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Can This 14-Year-Old Football Star Become a High School Millionaire?

Major brands and local sponsors have offered lucrative deals to high school, and even younger, stars who promote their products.

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Fencing Is the Latest Sport Caught in the Transgender Athlete Debate

A fencer’s refusal to compete against a transgender opponent in a women’s bout at a Maryland meet has put the issue in front of Congress.

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Trump Considers Executive Order on College Athlete Payments

College athletes have signed deals worth millions of dollars since the N.C.A.A. allowed student-athletes to become paid endorsers.

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Is Boogie Fland the Next Legendary New York City Point Guard?

In some ways, the prodigy now starring for Arkansas in the N.C.A.A. tournament is an urban basketball archetype. But this is not the same old story.

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Fans at NCAA Wrestling Championships Show Love For Trump. But Not So Much Musk.

President Trump and Elon Musk took in the Division I wrestling championship in Philadelphia on Saturday. But some of Mr. Trump’s supporters expressed complicated feelings about his billionaire adviser.

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