New Pennsylvania Law on Sports Pool Betting Raises Dispute

A Pennsylvania law on sports pool betting that took effect in recent days has triggered a pregame tussle between a lawmaker and the state police over whether certain organizations can legally operate such betting pools on the Super Bowl. Sen. Lisa Boscola, D-Northampton, wants to overturn the call by state police that the betting pools remain illegal under federal law, arguing that the legislation signed into law in November was fashioned to get around a sports betting prohibition in the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. She wrote in a letter to Gov. Tom Corbett that the state police were…