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"The awkward position that sports media finds itself in amid the NBA gambling scandal was put on full display Thursday when a famed basketball podcaster bemoaned how prop bets were an absolute menace right after urging his listeners to sign up for a sports betting app so they could customize player props. Zach Lowe, a veteran sportswriter who now hosts a twice-weekly podcast for The Ringer, opened up Thursday's episode with an ad read from the show's sponsor gambling website FanDuel."
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