Allison worries everyday fans are being conditioned to see the diamond – or the court or the field – as slot machines and the human athletes as spinning symbols that sometimes align as dollar signs.
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Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2026
Time and again, the female characters, conditioned to be thrown into brutal competition with one another, find relief in solidarity.
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