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Can gambling juice fandom for women's sports?

  • Written by Adam Cohen, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
Members of the University of Oregon's basketball team embrace before the final of the Pac-12 women's tournament.AP Photo/John Locher

Every March Madness, thousands of tweets and articles dissecting seedings, potential upsets and favorable matchups flood the feeds of sports fans.

According to ESPN, over 70 million people will fill out a bracket....

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