MLS’s Polymarket deal looks even worse after players’ gambling bans | Leander Schaerlaeckens

With its credibility swaying in the wake of a betting scandal, the very last thing the league needed was to be in business with a prediction platform The timing of the suspensions was unfortunate. Or perhaps it was karmically inevitable. Forty-two days after Major League Soccer announced a new partnership with Polymarket – a prediction platform that lets its users bet on just about anything, including whether, when, and where one country will bomb another – a press release went out. A pair of...

By Leander Schaerlaeckens