On Thursday, in an act that underscored sports gambling’s emergence from the shadows, hosts J.P. So the hosts - four longtime friends from Bowie who got their start on local cable access - dubbed the segment “Friday Night Fatties.” It was their way of describing NFL picks that they considered “big fat winners.” When the Sports Junkies, a popular sports radio foursome, wanted to do an end-of-the-week betting segment in the late 1990s, jittery station managers asked them to be discreet about it. Sports betting became legal in Maryland more than three years after a Supreme Court ruling opened the door to wagering outside Nevada. Flaim, part of the Sports Junkies crew on WJFK (106.7 The Fan), places a bet at the opening of the BetMGM Sportbook at National Harbor on Thursday.
