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New Jersey moving ahead with legalized sports betting

http://www.syracuse.com/axeman/index.ssf/2014/10/legal_sports_betting_coming_to_new_jersey_should_new_york_be_next.html (h/t Xtreme)

Here's the question. Nevada (read: Las Vegas) has never hosted an NCAA tournament game because they have legalized sports betting. Will New Jersey, who has hosted 12 Regionals and one FF since 1986, receive the same treatment?
Very possibly...although Las Vegas WAS gambling so merely by siting games there the NCAA was linking itself with gambling.
Not the same situation in NJ.
(Insert joke about NJ being synonymous with corruption).

http://espn.go.com/espn/chalk/story...injunction-prevent-new-jersey-sports-betting/

But it makes little sense to punish a venue by withholding the event when placing a bet is as simple as placing a phone call or a making few taps of the mouse online.

More likely down the road is that the NCAA & pro sports league will find a way to get a cut of the gambling $$$.
For all of them...it's all about the Benjamins.
What has been a threat to their credibility will become another big source of revenue.
 
I live in Colorado, and we struck a major blow for liberty regardless of a person's opinion on cannabis. Eventually common sense and demand will outweigh tradition and most lobbying. People of all walks of life are sick of the nanny state and these outdated laws will hopefully have a graveyard picture thread made for them similar to that one with the big east names on the tombstones. Death to prohibition (as well as the left/right illusion). I look to a day when other states start to follow the public demand, which is what our founders intended when creating a republic, and then discussions about shunning one or 2 states wont be an issue. Institutions that punish people for exercising liberty are going to become less popular in the coming years.
 

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