My Latest Gambling Addiction: Soccer

I went to Georgetown, then Austin, this week to visit friends and conduct some research at the Briscoe Center for American History on the UT campus, a repository I have been visiting for more than 40 years. My friend lives in Circleville, a few miles north of Taylor. We met at one of our favorite lunch spots and hung out there for a pleasant 2-plus hours. She noticed I was continually glancing at my phone but was too polite to ask why. So, I confessed. I was looking at alerts on the World Cup match between England and Ghana. I joined Kalshi, a widely used predictive market, about a month ago by depositing...

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