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Online gambling sites are offering can't-lose propositions, giving away easy money to attract new customers to a nascent multibillion-dollar industry.

As sports gambling grows, so do appetite-whetting sure bets

February 3, 2021 at 8:15 p.m.

You've heard it all your life: There is no such thing as a sure thing. Well, that was before betting on sports could be legal anywhere in the United States....

At Belmont’s backstretch, caring for horses during the shutdown

June 4, 2020 at 1:20 p.m.

Tom Morley had two thoroughbreds entered at Belmont Park on Wednesday when horse racing returned to New York for the first time in nearly three months. No winners, but it...

People walk through the LakePoint Sporting Community for the Perfect Game WOrld Series in Emerson, Ga., July 25, 2018. Before the spread of the coronavirus, youth sports generated more than $15 billion annually and created the Òtourna-cation circuit,Ó as it is known, by becoming like a cruise ship for sporting families with all-inclusive offerings, but now there has been an enormous reckoning, one that has evaporated tens of millions of dollars and is getting worse daily as events and camps are canceled into the summer. (Kevin D. Liles/The New York Times)

Youth sports worry about weathering pandemic, and future play

April 20, 2020 at 1:33 p.m.

Like the hospitality industry, youth sports is a leisure industry reliant on bringing children and their families together on fields and in gyms.

Duke protests continue

August 21, 2021 at 5:53 a.m.

While a flier featuring photographs of Duke's lacrosse players began appearing around campus, the university's president, Richard H. Brodhead, urged a group of students Wednesday morning to learn from the...

Clarett’s exit probable

August 21, 2021 at 12:35 a.m.

Maurice Clarett was charged on Tuesday with lying to the police about the value of items stolen from him last spring, and Ohio State moved closer to severing its relationship...

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