Riding the Line with Glenn Robinson

Scholars have estimated that half of American men 18 to 49 have a betting app on their phones.

“Riding the Line with Glenn Robinson” follows one undergraduate at Penn State University who is making his big bet on a March Madness game, putting on display the casual attitude young men have in 2025 toward gambling their money on sports.

Without preaching the dangers of addiction, the film shows how normalized sports betting has become since 2018, when the U.S. Supreme Court decision allowed states to decide whether to legalize it.

This is a story of how sports gambling plays out on a college campus.