Joon Lee

Partnering with fake journalists to promote sports gambling is as big a red flag as it gets for the prediction market industry

Everything is sports gambling now www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

The best part of Drake Maye being good is seeing again that spiteful look people used to give me when I mentioned my Patriots fandom. Feels like home.

YouTube video by Joon Lee Why Driving a NASCAR Is So Much Harder Than It Looks

I’m trying to understand what the hardest thing in sports actually is.

So I explored NASCAR, where the legendary @jimmiejohnson.bsky.social showed me how this world really works.

And then I tried driving a race car myself: youtu.be/yce922orRJs?...

YouTube video by Joon Lee Why Driving a NASCAR Is So Much Harder Than It Looks

I’m trying to understand what the hardest thing in sports actually is.

So I explored NASCAR, where the legendary @jimmiejohnson.bsky.social showed me how this world really works.

And then I tried driving a race car myself: youtu.be/yce922orRJs?...

Thank you!

This’ll be good

I’m trying to understand what the hardest thing in sports actually is.

So I went to explore NASCAR, where the legendary @jimmiejohnson.bsky.social showed me how this world really works.

And then I drove a race car myself.
youtu.be/lMzjIPIq9aA?...

Thanks dude

👀

Thank you!

I’m trying to understand what the hardest thing in sports actually is.

So I went to explore NASCAR, where the legendary @jimmiejohnson.bsky.social showed me how this world really works.

And then I drove a race car myself.
youtu.be/lMzjIPIq9aA?...

Joon Lee Making sense of sports • Journalist • Formerly: ESPN, B/R, The Washington Post • Born in Seoul 🇰🇷 Bred in Boston • workwith@joon.me New York City via Boston & Seoul My bio: I'm an award-winning sp...

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I've never been this terrified while reporting a story.

New video on my YouTube tomorrow:

Sports gambling is not just corrupting our trust in sports, but America.

Thank you to @amanpourcopbs.bsky.social, @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social and @camanpour.bsky.social for the platform.

Our full conversation: youtu.be/uiomTi50pS8?...

84% support stricter oversight of gambling in pro sports.

One of the first polls showing how gambling scandals are changing how fans watch, trust and care about sports.

Full results: www.sacredheart.edu/media/shu-me...

The gambling ad backlash is real.

68% of gamblers say sports betting advertising encourages risky or unethical behavior.

This is from people who already gamble on sports, not the general public.

Accountability is completely split:

• 47% blame players/coaches
• 20% blame leagues
• 13% blame sportsbooks

Younger gamblers are much more likely to blame betting platforms than older ones. Generational fault line.

A new national poll on sports gambling from Sacred Heart:

- 79% say the recent scandals have shaken their trust in the NBA, 38% say its shaken trust a lot.
- 90% are worried about corruption across sports.
- 75% of gambler believe corruption is more widespread than the NBA

In the last month, the FBI has charged players from two different leagues for roles in sports-betting scandals.

Either legalized gambling is exposing corruption that’s always been there.

Or it’s creating it.

Either answer is terrible for sports.

Thanks for sharing, Carl

“.. for generations, sports was one of the few places where Americans could still gather around something bigger than ourselves. Now, .. we tally payouts .. until a game becomes little more than a series of outcomes to be predicted and monetized.”

@joon.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

Opinion | Gambling Is Killing Sports and Consuming America

Sports weren’t corrupted by gamblers. It got sold out by the people who made gambling central to the business model.

New @nytopinion.nytimes.com column: how gambling became the engine driving American life — starting with sports www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

I edited the first few but I now have a team helping me

Thank you for watching and sharing!

NEW VIDEO: More teams are slashing payroll—even championship contenders. I asked Mark Cuban why. His answer?

“Teams do many more money when they have a low payroll and lose.”

We live in an era where losing is more profitable than winning. youtu.be/sAJH7Bx-BV4?...

The NFL will own 10% of ESPN, which licenses its name to a sportsbook.

The NFL will directly profit from sports gambling.

Goodell said in 2017, “We still strongly oppose legalized sports gambling. The integrity of our game is No. 1. We will not compromise on that.”

Is Mike Felger the most influential person in Boston? - The Boston Globe The dominant figure in local sports talk radio manages to capture — and shape — the mood of this fast-changing city.

In a city where politicians cycle out and owners stay hidden behind tinted glass, sports radio show host Mike Felger has been the loudest, clearest, and most consistent voice, @joon.bsky.social writes in #GlobeIdeas.

Not just in sports — in anything.

Is Mike Felger the most influential person in Boston? - The Boston Globe The dominant figure in local sports talk radio manages to capture — and shape — the mood of this fast-changing city.

For @bostonglobe.com: When Marty Walsh was Boston’s mayor, he turned to sports radio, not social media, to get a temperature check on the city.

For two decades, Mike Felger has set the agenda on sports radio.

Is Felger the most influential person in Boston?
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/o...

YouTube video by Joon Lee Why NBA Superstars Are Corny Now

NEW VIDEO: Jordan and Kobe were stoic icons.

Now stars like SGA, Tyrese Haliburton and Jayson Tatum are called corny.

How did this happen?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtHt...