This week’s “Sunday Morning” (March 30th)

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Cover Story: Bad bet? The risk of sports gambling addiction
Legalized gambling and professional sports were once considered a deadly combination to avoid at all costs. But today, 39 states and Washington, DC are legalizing online sports gambling. Last year alone, nearly $150 billion in legal sports bets were held. One in two issues With gamblers trying to commit suicide, therapist Harry Levant has recovered gambling addicts, and says ease of access on mobile phones and the number of betting opportunities represent a growing public health crisis. Ted Coppel, a senior contributor for “Sunday Morning,” looks into whether online sports gambling has become a bad bet.

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Almanac: March 30th
“Sunday Morning” looks back at the historic events of this date.

Book: Maria Schreiber meets a broken heart with poetry
She was a child of the Kennedy family, a pioneering broadcast journalist, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, a woman’s health advocate, and a woman looking for herself after the end of her marriage. Maria Schreiber’s latest book, “I Am Maria,” is a mis-lined and public account of her extremely private journey, told through poetry. Lee Cowan reports.

Read the excerpt: Maria Schreiber’s “I’m Maria”

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Stage: Rethinking “Death Becomes Her” for Broadway
The 1992 cult film Death is She, starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Horn, Isabella Rossellini and Bruce Willis, is the latest Hollywood film translated into a Broadway musical. Correspondent Mo Rocca speaks with stars Megan Hilty, Michelle Williams (Destiny’s Child), two-time Tony-Nominee Jennifer Simard and director Christopher Gattelli.

To watch the trailer for “I’m Death”, please click on the video link below.

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Passage: Memoam
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable people who left us this week.

Art: What is the future of the Kennedy Center?
After criticising the Kennedy Center’s programming and finances, President Trump nominated himself as the agency’s chairman and replaced board members with Trump allies. Since then, the renowned Washington Center for the Arts has been shaken up with cancellations due to questions about artists, resignation and future missions. CBS News’ Nora O’Donnell spoke with Deborah Lutter, who was fired as president more than a decade later. Benfors, former artistic director of Symphony Orchestra. Board member Paolozampoli on the future of the Kennedy Center.

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Explanation: Topics of annoying corporate buzzwords
Faith Salie shares a “destructive action item” that business buzzword users “disrupt” “onboarding” (i.e. if you don’t want to “smart” from work).

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Music: Elton John of Brandi Carlisle: She gave me a “new start”
Years ago, Elton John was a flicker of hope in a confused world for young Brandi Carlisle, who is at age and suffering from her sexuality. Today, the two music superstars are not only friends but also collaborators, recording an album together called “I believe in Angels.” They were artistically forced onto each other with correspondent Tracy Smith, and talked about their emotional response to the closing track of 78-year-old John’s album, “When This Old World Ends With Me.”

To hear Elton John and Brandi Carlisle perform the title track “Who believes in angels?”, click on the video player below.

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Health: How art creates healthier communities
Thousands of studies have found that involvement in the arts can improve public health, promote healing from illness, and protect against issues such as cognitive decline, heart disease, anxiety and depression. Dr. John Lapook, Chief Medical Correspondent of CBS News, speaks to Broadway Director Lead Bessonette. This is Leah Devessonette, behind the National Public Health Movement, a national public health movement whose mission is to connect more people to the arts and create healthier communities.

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Nature: Good news for migratory bird protection
Earlier this month, South Carolina lawmakers voted to halt human visits to Devaux Bank, a small island in Charleston County. “Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley reports on conservationists celebrating the island’s closure in several bird traveled months.

From the archive: Tagging Whimbrel Shorebirds (video)
As bird numbers have been reduced due to climate change pressures on habitats and migration routes, ornithologists were shocked to discover 20,000 eastern whiplashes, half the estimated population.

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From the Archive: Director’s (YouTube Video)
Check out these fascinating “Sunday Morning” interviews.

Peter Jackson (2004) of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy (2004) Robert Altman “Shortcut” (1993) Tim Burton “Corpos Bride” (2006) Steven Spielberg (2012) Gretager Wygion “Ladybird” (2019) Francis Ford Coppolaon “Youthwind” Norman Judeason’s Memoirs (2005) “It’s Complyctive” (2010) Merchant Merchant (2000) Martin Minghella’s Martin Scorsese (1997) (1997) (1997) Quentin Tarantino on “Hugo” (1997) “Inglourious basserds” pruppher “pruppher” ruppher “(1997) Quentin Tarantino (2023)

Marathon: Secrets and Nature Wonders (YouTube Video)
Travel the wild and see the wonders of nature up close in this “CBS Sunday Morning” marathon.

Dove Secret Life Wild Donkey New Life Horusschekani: Medical Wonderful Secret Ancient Creatures of Elephants: “Swimming Jewels” for Buttsbeber’s Love: Rod Rock Success Story Liton Agent Pig Rescue Farm Riding Secrets: University Altruism that takes away nature: Friendship in the Animal World “Meet Fossils”: The ancient life that drives our world can move our world that may teach us about lengthening the world’s oldest trees to reduce mosquito populations.

Art: “Sunday Morning” Sands
Enjoy samples of sun art used in “CBS Sunday Morning” highlighted in our weekly list. 2024 and 2025.

Gallery: The prominent deaths of 2025
They looked back at the respected persona who left us this year, and touched us on their innovation, creativity and humanity.

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