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Watch: Inside Our $22K Sports Betting Experiment

By Jake Pearson, ProPublica · October 10, 2026

Earlier this year, we heard that reporter Jake Pearson planned to ask our editors at ProPublica for more than $20,000 so he could spend the NBA playoffs betting like a problem gambler . We told him we wanted in on the action. For 10 weeks, our documentary team at ProPublica filmed Jake as he dove ball-cap-first into…

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Watch: Inside Our $22K Sports Betting Experiment

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