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New York Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow’s office is writing a bill to legalize sports betting in New York.
Now it looks likes the Pretlow bill will happen. The bill will attempt to present a challenge to federal law, much like the ongoing New Jersey sports bettingcase.
The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) bans single-game wagering everywhere in the US — except for Nevada — and allows limited wagering in some other states.
On a radio show earlier this week, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie seemed very optimistic his state would have legal sports betting as early as next year.
He also laid down a marker on the fate of sports betting fight. Christie’s administration has been fighting for years to legalize such wagering at New Jersey’s casinos and racetracks but has been rebuffed in court each time. The state has now petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case.
“I also think that we’ll have sports gambling in New Jersey in the next year,” Christie said. “Before I leave office, I think we’ll have sports gambling in Monmouth Park.”
John Brennan summarized the professional sports leagues and NCAA’s sports betting brief.
“This case involves petitioners’ second attempt to convince this Court to review a novel constitutional argument that has been rejected by every court to consider it. The principal difference is that now petitioners have added three more adverse decisions, including one by an overwhelming majority of an en banc court, to the tally of strikes against them. There is no reason for this Court to reach a different result this time around.”
The district court, a panel of the Third Circuit, and the overwhelming majority of the en banc Third Circuit all recognized that when New Jersey dictated who could gamble on sports, where they could do it, and on which events they could bet—all with the avowed purpose of enabling sports gambling to take place in New Jersey’s casinos and racetracks—the state had “authorized” sports gambling in violation of PASPA.”
With just three weeks left, there are eight teams within one game of the top spot in the Westgate SuperContest.
The contestant using the alias Mac Sports Inc. is the leader for the second straight week at 46-23-1 (66.7 percent) with 46.5 points, as players receive one point for each win and half a point for a push. Orange Crush is in second place with 46 points with the sextet of Greybeard, Just Cover Baby!, Unclebobn4brothers, Vegasportsline.com and former leaders Mark Davis and Janknation (who is actually the same person with two separate entries that has been using mostly identical plays all season) at 45.5 — meaning that the top eight is separated by just one correct pick.
A bettor who put $5 on a 15-team parlay that would have paid $100,000 lost on the last leg needing the Patriots to cover at -7.
Because the Patriots beat the Baltimore Ravens by exactly seven, 30-23, the result of the 15th game of the parlay, after the previous 14 had come through, was a push.
William Hill spokesman Michael Grodsky confirmed to ESPN that it was an all-or-nothing parlay card. As such, the push didn’t reduce it to winning a 14-leg parlay; it made the entire card worthless.