Poll: Sports betting, never fully embraced by the general public, now quickly falling out of favor

 

In 3 years, the gap between "a bad thing" and "neither good nor bad" for society shrank 16 percentage points and 14 percentage points for sports.

Graph and headline:  Pew Research, 10/2/2025

Related reading:

New York Times, 10/23/2025

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