I can't find the right words to express my gratitude for the Supreme Court ruling which actually annulled the prohibition on sports gambling introduced by Bill Bradley back in a day.
Quoting nytimes:
The law the decision overturned — the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act — prohibited states from authorizing sports gambling. Among its sponsors was Senator Bill Bradley, Democrat of New Jersey and a former college and professional basketball star. He said the law was needed to safeguard the integrity of sports.
But the court said the law was unconstitutional. “It is as if federal officers were installed in state legislative chambers and were armed with the authority to stop legislators from voting on any offending proposals,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said, writing for the majority. “A more direct affront to state sovereignty is not easy to imagine.”
So, actually, betting on sports is now no less legal than investing on wall street!