EDITORIAL: For a new generation of kids, sports and gambling now go hand in glove

In early 2014, Harry Levant, a successful Philadelphia lawyer, was in an Atlantic City casino hotel room about to take his own life. Over the previous two years, he had stolen $1.9 million, mostly settlement claims he had won for his clients. Now, the money was gone — frittered away to feed his gambling addiction. Mr. Levant, desperate and broke, felt he had nothing to live for.

“I came within seconds of taking my own life,” he told us. Instead, he thought of his children, vowed to change, and called a gambling addiction help line. He was disbarred, sentenced to eight years’ probation and ordered to repay his victims.