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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Nearing 1,000 reviews on Goodreads, "Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling" has a stellar 4.3/5 average rating. Today only, get the Kindle version on Amazon for just $3.99!

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thank you for the newsletter shoutout, @joeposnanski.com! EVERYBODY LOSES will be Amazon’s Daily Deal on Sunday, so lookout for a huge ebook discount that day only if you haven’t grabbed a copy yet.

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Why did Keith Whyte, America's leading advocate for mitigating gambling harm, leave the National Council on Problem Gambling? And what's he been up to since? Turns out he was fired by NCPG, then offered a steep raise by the gambling lobby: $20,000 a month. From my profile in @newrepublic.com:

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I'm honored to be sharing a stage with @emilydufton.bsky.social and Erin Williams tomorrow morning at Gold Coast Book Fair to discuss one of the most provocative allegations in the air -- as it involves gambling, painkillers, and much else: "the business of addiction." #bookfest #longisland

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Here's a better view of that registration code:

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Spend lunch with us tomorrow! I'm honored to be joining @morganstateu.bsky.social for a webinar about the sports betting boom, especially what it means that so many college students are suddenly enamored of gambling. Register with the QR code below:

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This Thursday at 6:30 pm, I'm speaking with @justinwolfers.bsky.social about my book EVERYBODY LOSES at Ann Arbor's @literatibookstore.bsky.social. I'd bet we'll touch on things like: --How do sportsbooks egg on bettors? --Do people in the industry have misgivings? --Are sports being corrupted?

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Unbeknownst to me, a mental health services provider in Virginia is giving out copies of EVERYBODY LOSES at a gambling conference. So grateful to learn of this!

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I can tire of all the "what's wrong with baseball" discourse, even though I think a lot is wrong with baseball, but I did really appreciate @joeposnanski.com nailing why Team USA was such a joyless bummer at the WBC

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Headed to the Tucson Festival of Books to to talk EVERYBODY LOSES and join some great-sounding panels with Keith O'Brien, Jane Leavy, SL Price, and Christine Brennan. For the first 130,000 festival attendees to "like" this post, I'll happily sign your copy of my book.

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It was so weird to go to ESPN's homepage today and see this ad with zero words explaining what the hell I'm looking at

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Grateful for this review of EVERYBODY LOSES by the longtime Nevada bookmaker Robert Walker, who called the book "a mirror the industry doesn't want to look into."

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"One of the best books I’ve read in the past year," @danshanoff.bsky.social says about EVERYBODY LOSES in @theathletic.com. I answered a fun question for his newsletter: What one rule would I impose on sportsbooks if made sports betting czar? What would you say? www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Pointed but hard to argue with, from @alexshephard.bsky.social's review of EVERYBODY LOSES in @washingtonpost.com:

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

One more clip from my interview with Chuck Todd about EVERYBODY LOSES. At the end, he could only shake his head in dismay ...

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Thrilled by this review of EVERYBODY LOSES in @wsj.com. The lede is spot on. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Honored to be speaking with former Rep. Patrick Kennedy next Thursday (2/19) in DC about my book "Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling." RSVP to the email on the flyer below if you'd like to attend!

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

In @ms.now, how FanDuel's former head of product feels about parlays becoming sportsbooks' biggest moneymaker:

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We spoke about some silly stuff, too.

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Spoke with @davidlitt.bsky.social about the corruptibility of microbets about an hour before @davidpurdum.bsky.social broke that Emmanuel Clase is now alleged to have fixed way more pitches than previously reported.

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Incredible to go on one of my favorite podcasts, @righttimebomani.bsky.social, and get this endorsement for EVERYBODY LOSES. Thank you, @bomani-jones.bsky.social. (Episode dropped yesterday.)

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"If you're interested in this topic, I think you'll devour it too" — @brianstelter.bsky.social on EVERYBODY LOSES, in his CNN newsletter. So thrilled to hear that. Book link in bio.

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

For my book EVERYBODY LOSES, I spoke with people who've worked at The Ringer and feel "gross" about pushing their audience to place sucker bets at the behest of FanDuel. I get the sense a lot of people in sports media feel the same.

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Can't wait for this tonight at Park Road Books in Charlotte with @joeposnanski.com parkroadbooks.com/event/2026-0...

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Grateful that EVERYBODY LOSES is an Amazon "editors' pick." Less than a week to go until pub day! A good time to preorder and get a guaranteed delivery on the day it comes out. www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lo...

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Such an honor to have people I've admired for years — @sallyjenx.bsky.social, @bomani-jones.bsky.social, @peterking1.bsky.social, Steve Coll, Bob Costas, and Joe Maddon — offering generous endorsements on the back cover of EVERYBODY LOSES. It's on sale in just a week! (link in bio)

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A national sportsbook with a responsible gaming department of *1* employee. A lobbyist insisting that today's sportsbooks have *zero* customers with addictions. And the quote below. Just some of the whoppers in an excerpt from EVERYBODY LOSES published today in @vanityfair.com link 👇

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Imagine if climate change skeptics had to put their money where their mouth is. Or people who cling to any number of disprovable beliefs. Could that help them see the light? It's a fascinating potential upside of prediction markets, and I was glad to get to mention it in @newyorker.com

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I'lll say it again and again: Refs made highly questionable calls at the end of Lakers vs Suns last night, and one common fan reaction (see attached) was entirely predictable (see NFL commish Paul Tagliablue's testimony before Congress in 1992, below)

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The late author Carol Shields, a mother of five, once told Terry Gross this exceedingly practical approach for completing a novel. Next time I feel like there's not enough time to write, I'll be a little less quick to complain.

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Thrilled to read this starred review in @ala-booklist.bsky.social. Thank you! "Funt masterfully chronicles the meteoric rise in gambling and societal acceptance of a predatory business in a book that will simultaneously inform and alarm readers." "Everybody Loses" is available for preorder.

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

My latest newsletter features an exclusive interview with the writer of a memorable sports gambling episode of "The Sopranos." But I also wrote about The New York Times's unhinged account of a New Jersey baseball game in 1884. Here's a taste of what I mean: dannyfunt.substack.com/p/what-the-s...

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Matthew Weiner wrote a remarkable episode of "The Sopranos" about Tony's descent into compulsive sports gambling. For the first time, Weiner explains what that storyline sought to convey about the dangers of sports betting. It's more resonant than ever. (link👇)

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

As Steve Coll recounts in his extraordinary “The Achilles Trap,” Saddam Hussein vented privately to GOP Senators visiting Baghdad about the US press for drawing the world’s attention to his gassing of tens of thousands of Iranians and Iraqi Kurds, which he’d denied. Their reply:

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Sometimes newspaper editors are too strict with word counts. I came across this story in The New York Times from 1889. I would have appreciated at least a few more paragraphs, personally.

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Michigan sends cease-and-desist to BetUS, accusing the offshore sportsbook of taking bets without a license. What's crazy is how brazenly sites like BetUS continue to advertise to Americans. Here's an auto-generated ad just now on ESPN.com

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Humpday motivation: You can throw a sure-fire interception to lose the Super Bowl, but instead have it result in an insanely lucky catch that allows your team to win and you to be remembered as the greatest QB in NFL history.

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