Delaware is poised to become the first state to legalise sports betting in the wake of this week’s US Supreme Court ruling, with plans to launch as early as June. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court voted to repeal a federal ban on sports betting in the country, allowing states across the US to individually legalise such activities. The federal 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) had blocked states from launching a regulated market –with the exception of Nevada, Oregon, Delaware and Montana – but a bid led by New Jersey to overturn the Act has proved successful. However…

For decades, online sports betting has been illegal in the US outside Nevada. With a Supreme Court ruling Monday, that’s about to change, likely before the upcoming NFL season kicks off. But don’t get too excited—or horrified, depending on your perspective—about the future of online sports gambling just yet; it won’t come all at once, and it won’t be everywhere. In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court backed the state of New Jersey’s challenge to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, a 1992 law that banned states other than Nevada from operating a sports book. The decision doesn’t legalize…

Suddenly, all bets are on regarding the future of American sports gambling. A surge in betting caused by the Supreme Court’s lifting of a federal ban on sports wagering is expected to trigger new gaming opportunities and burnish existing sports books in Las Vegas casinos — but also spawn a battle in California among horse-racing tracks, Indian casinos and card clubs as they try to grab a slice of the added action. “We are excited and we are ready to roll on this,” said Ernest Stevens Jr., chairman of the National Indian Gaming Assn., a trade group for Indian casinos….

America’s distrust of sports betting can be traced to the night of 21 September 1919. That’s when several members of baseball’s Chicago White Sox met with gambling boss Arnold Rothstein in a New York hotel room to throw the following month’s World Series. The scandal that unraveled after the White Sox’s sluggish five-games-to-three loss to the Cincinnati Reds hurled into the fire the innocence of a nation and led to the appointment of baseball’s first commissioner: Kenesaw Mountain Landis. It also created a firm distaste for any implication that sports were somehow compromised. History forgets the eight players involved were…

You can’t miss the world’s largest sports-betting parlor, just past the bronze Elvis statue at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino. It’s a glitzy temple to the big business of laying odds on college and pro games, with 400 cushy leather seats and a massive wall of video screens. Westgate spent $18 million building it two years ago. And now that the U.S. Supreme Court has put an end to Nevada’s near-monopoly on sports wagering? To hear Westgate executives tell it, no problem. “We look at it as an opportunity,” said Jay Kornegay, vice president of race and sports…

A day doesn’t pass without eager sports betting fans perusing the periodicals for some indication of where the U.S. Supreme Court stands on the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA). The legislation has been challenged numerous times, most notably by the state of New Jersey, which has now racked up more than $8.5 million in legal fees to try and have the bill overturned. And, the number keeps climbing. The New Jersey Division of Law presented state financial records to the Press of Atlantic City, showing that the Garden State has now spent just under $8.6 million…

GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) said on Monday that he will introduce new legislation for a sports betting ban after the Supreme Court struck down a federal law that banned the betting in almost every state. “At stake here is the very integrity of sports. That’s why I plan to introduce legislation in the coming weeks to help protect honesty and principle in the athletic arena,” Hatch said in a statement. The Supreme Court ruled earlier Monday that provisions in the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992 that prohibit states from authorizing and licensing a sports gambling…

Wimbledon is one of the biggest and most unique tennis competitions in the world. Since it’s grand opening in 1877, Wimbledon has seen some phenomenal tennis talent and set some prestige tennis records. Pete Sampras a well-known and praised athlete has won Wimbledon’s Gentleman’s Singles titles for seven consecutive years (1993 – 2000) tied with William Renshaw. Sampras has only been surpassed once by Roger Federer, who won 20 major singles titles which is the most by any man in history whilst holding a record of 8 Wimbledon titles. Wimbledon has also seen it’s youngest winner Boris Becker, back in…