Sportsbooks laughed at regulators all the way to the bank

DraftKings to Barstool Sports are flagrantly violating advertising laws. The fines are part of doing business.

Like most semi-educated Ohio males, there was a two week period in my life that I thought the word “parlay” equated to a sound investment strategy.

It started on sportsbook.com, an online venture based in the fine country of Gibraltar. The checks, which could take weeks at a time to arrive, were drawn from banks in Thailand and Canada.

There was a time, …