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Following decades of holding the line, the NCAA and the four major professional sports leagues finally lost their struggle against the spread of lawful sports betting in america.
The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) — the national sports gambling statute preventing any nation outside Nevada from accepting a wager on a match — died of natural Supreme Court causes one year ago, just after 10 a.m. ET on May 14, 2018.
In that short year, seven nations (in addition to Nevada) have enabled widespread legal sports betting and together have taken in almost $8 billion in bets. Montana, Indiana, Iowa and Washington, D.C., have passed legalization bills over the past couple of days, and lots of countries — including New York — are poised to be next. 2024, nearly 70 percent of states expected to offer sports gambling.
It is a massive moment in American sport and has produced some Extraordinary 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 appeared together with the CEO of one of the largest sportsbook operators in the nation to announce partnerships.
Two NFL owners entered last season with financial bets, albeit de minimis ones, in DraftKings — the dream giant-turned-bookmaker, which is taking bets on their respective teams.
??? Fox Sports announced last week that it is going to launch a sports betting app and begin taking bets this fall — the greatest move so far by media firms increasingly taking an interest in the industry. ESPN and Fox Sports 1 have launched daily shows around sports betting.
??? Sports gambling has been at the center of discussion of numerous huge sporting moments over the past year (Todd Gurley’s kneel-down, Tiger Woods winning the Masters, the Kentucky Derby disqualification, James Holzhauer’s”Jeopardy!” jog, amongst others), raising its profile even further.

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