What do you call a criminal act that is nearly unenforceable? When it comes to betting on the men’s college basketball tournament, “illegal but usually ignored” seems a fitting answer to this rhetorical riddle. The weight of the law might crush this term’s relevance or standing, but in the court of public opinion it seems to capture March Madness in all its buzzer-beating glory.
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