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By Andrew Beaton and Jared Diamond April 3, 2020 10:38 am ET A couple of days a week in Omaha, Neb., Josh Skou likes to unwind after work by driving a few minutes across the Missouri River to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he can legally gamble on sports.
The unprecedented sports hiatus has left fans longing for the games they love. Gamblers have an extra hole to fill. Without normal sports to bet on, they’re desperately searching for substitutes. “People are at home, they’re looking for something to do and there’s no sports on,” said Anne Juceam, who runs Reality Fantasy League, a website that turns TV shows into fantasy sports competitions. As with other fantasy leagues, many groups of friends join and then bet among themselves.
With the second overall pick, Mr. Duberstein took Jennifer Carroll, the executive chef at Philadelphia’s Spice Finch, which serves Mediterranean delicacies like shakshuka and date-braised lamb shank. Traditional sportsbooks and fantasy websites are scraping to make do. There have been more than 300,000 entries in DraftKings pools over the past couple of weeks, where people have won around $100,000 based on programs like ABC’s “Shark Tank.” Some places have begun offering bets based on the high temperature in given cities. Sportsbetting.com has set lines for how many times President Trump will say words like “tremendous” in his daily press briefing.
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