New Jersey’s<\/a> attempts to legalize. The lower court ruled in an en banc hearing that Congress is the only entity that has the power to amend PASPA.<\/p>\nIt seems unlikely that the nation’s high court would take on Jersey’s sports betting case. However, some sense of encouragement arose this week for proponents after the Supreme Court asked the US solicitor general to file a brief on the federal government’s view on the legal challenge.<\/p>\n
Opportunities Missed<\/b><\/h2>\n
Michiganites love their football, and on Saturday and Sundays, they pack stadiums to watch the Detroit Lions, Wolverines, and Spartans.<\/p>\n
No sport in America is more bet upon than the gridiron, and in 2016, should sports betting have been permitted, Michigan casinos likely would have stood to generate a bounty of riches from the sport.<\/p>\n
That’s because there was much optimism for all three teams this past fall, but they all ended in disappointment.<\/p>\n
Assuming most of the betting action would have been on the Michigan teams winning, casinos might have enjoyed a prosperous few months. The Detroit Lions squeaked into the NFL Playoffs, but lost in the Wild Card round to the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n
The Michigan State Spartans football team entered the college football season ranked #12 in the Associated Press poll. But Sparty experienced a dreadful campaign, going 3-9 and missing out on a bowl game.<\/p>\n
The Michigan Wolverines were one of the top programs in the country for most of the regular season. But they lost three of their final four games including the Orange Bowl against Florida State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sports betting legislation is once again lurking the halls of the Michigan State Capitol, as one lawmaker in the Great Lake State continues pursuing the ending of the market’s prohibition. Introduced by State Rep. Robert Kosowski (D-District 16), House Bill 4060 seeks to grant casinos in Michigan with the right to offer odds on sporting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":44071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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