Everything you need to know about the Supreme Court’s ruling on sports betting

The NCAA doesn’t require teams to release injury reports. Individual conferences are free to make their own rules, and for years, the ACC has required teams to put out NFL-style reports before conference games. But the league is nixing that requirement for 2018, joining the other Power 5 leagues in not requiring anything.

Big Ten athletic directors are asking the NCAA to make injury reports a requirement for everybody. The Big Ten’s rationale is that, now that the Supreme Court has allowed states to legalize sports betting, injury reports are important to maintaining the integrity of the game.

While a recent Supreme Court ruling allows states to legalize sports gambling, that doesn’t exactly mean you can just bet on any team in any state.

In fact, New Jersey now has it in place that sports bets on local college teams, such as Rutgers, are prohibited:

In the Supreme Court decision that opened the door for states to legalize sports betting, the major American sports leagues were losers, literally. The NCAA was the other party in a legal fight with New Jersey, which wanted to have sports gambling legalized after voters there approved it in a 2011 referendum. All the other big U.S. leagues backed the NCAA, which was on a run of wins in federal court until the justices sided with New Jersey.

On Monday, New Jersey’s governor signed a new bill to formally legalize it there.

Betting on college sports is risky, because a) it’s betting on sports, and b) college sports are a mess. The people who play the games are between 18 and 23 years old.

Let me tell you something about people in that age group, as someone with a few months left of being in that age group: You can’t trust us to do anything but make avocado toast. We will let you down time and time again.

A big Supreme Court decision in May 2018 opened the door for legalized sports betting in America, but it didn’t make it legal on its own. All the court did was wipe out a federal ban on more states permitting sports gambling. Why haven’t more of them already allowed it?

We’ve gotta go way back, before America was actually the United States. The first horse-racing track in America was established in 1665. Before the Revolutionary War — which was partly funded through lottery revenue — many in the colonies considered themselves English subjects. As such, it makes sense that plenty of things got imported from across the pond. Some of those things were cultural staples like horse racing. The sport has roots in the 12th century, and folks have been gambling on horses running ever since.

On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down a 1992 federal law and in the process paved the way for states across the country to legalize sports betting. The end of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) could fundamentally change how Americans interact with the sports they love. It will be great news for some and bad news for others.

The American Gaming Association, the main lobbying group for the country’s casinos, has been pushing for legalized sports gambling for years. Casinos stand to make a lot of money once states across the country start making sports betting legal. There’s a ton we still don’t know about what legal sports betting will look like, including which states will offer it and how much of it will be online. But it’s a good bet that brick-and-mortar casinos will be among the first places allowed to offer it. They stand to make lots of money.

The United States Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) Monday, striking the law that prevented states from drafting their own regulations for local sports betting. The ruling will allow legal sportsbooks to begin operations throughout the country; it had previously only been allowed in grandfathered-in states Nevada, Oregon, Delaware, and Montana.

Murphy v. NCAA was a legal battle between the state of New Jersey and America’s major sports leagues. New Jersey argued legalization of sports gambling would allow the state to capture a new and significant stream of revenue from a practice already rampant in underground operations. The NCAA and its colleagues countered that the state’s legislation was a violation of PASPA — an argument that held up in federal court and twice on appeal before being heard by the Supreme Court on Dec. 4, 2017. In the end, a 6-3 majority sided with state authority to legalize sports betting on a case-by-case basis.