2 days ago
‘Kill yourself': Toxic mix of betting, social media fuels athlete abuse
Many nights after work, as people often do, Washington Nationals first baseman Nathaniel Lowe checks his social media accounts. Unlike most, however, Lowe must brace himself to find out which anonymous trolls, miscreants and provocateurs, at that very moment, want him dead.
If the safe-word filters on his accounts do their job that night — and if Lowe happened to have excelled at his job, at least relative to the prop bets staked to his performance — the abuse might not be so bad. Otherwise?
