After years of holding the line, the NCAA and the four major professional sports leagues finally lost their struggle against the spread of legal sports gambling in america.
The skilled and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) — the federal sports gambling statute preventing any nation outside Nevada from taking a wager on a match — died of natural Supreme Court causes one year ago, only after 10 a.m. ET on May 14, 2018.
In that brief year, seven states (along with Nevada) have enabled widespread lawful sports betting and together have taken in almost $8 billion in bets. Montana, Indiana, Iowa and Washington, D.C., have handed legalization bills within the past couple of days, and several countries — including New York — are poised to be next. By 2024, almost 70 percent of countries are expected to offer sports gambling.
It’s a monumental moment in American sport and already has produced some incredible scenes and storylines:
Three notable sports commissioners — the NBA’s Adam Silver, the NHL’s Gary Bettman and Major League Baseball’s Rob Manfred — have emerged with the CEO of one of the greatest sportsbook operators in the country to announce ventures.
Two NFL owners entered last year with monetary bets, albeit de minimis ones, in DraftKings — that the dream giant-turned-bookmaker, which will be taking bets on their respective teams.
??? Fox Sports declared last week that it is going to launch a sports betting app and begin taking bets this fall — the biggest move so far by media companies increasingly taking an interest in the business. ESPN and Fox Sports 1 have already launched daily shows around sports betting.
??? Sports gambling has been in the center of discussion of several huge sporting moments within the last year (Todd Gurley’s kneel-down, Tiger Woods winning the Masters, the Kentucky Derby disqualification, James Holzhauer’s”Jeopardy!” jog, among others), increasing its profile even further.

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