Gambling outfits reportedly spend more than $1 billionUSannually sponsoring major North American sports leagues, so the numbers make it clear: embracing legal sports betting represents a massive opportunity for leagues. But who bears the opportunity cost in this setup? Often the people who can least afford it.

In claiming he could beat reigning 100-metre Olympic champion Noah Lyles in a race, NFL receiver Tyreek Hill decided to ride the rising tide of Lyles' mainstream popularity, choosing the Olympic afterglow to issue a bogus claim that he could have made last week, last month, or last year.

After one day and countless inflammatory, defamatory, offensive social media posts from misogynists across the world, Italian boxer Angela Carini was ready to apologize to Algeria's Imane Khelif, who defeated her in 46 seconds to advance to the Olympic women's quarterfinals.