Legalized, normalized, and heavily monetized gambling is creating all sorts of irregularities, and it’s just a matter of time before the NFL is dealing with a gambling scandal of its own.

That was the impetus for Big Shield , a fictional look at how gambling interests could infiltrate a completely fictional pro football league that definitely is not the NFL.

Every month or so, another story emerges regarding the problematic overlap between gambling and sports. On Friday, David Purdum of ESPN.com posted an item regarding a suspected gambling “syndicate” that apparently targeted college basketball .

Per the report, documents obtained by ESPN via a public records request include details regarding “the behavior of an alleged gambling syndicate” and college basketball games played

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