Should sports betting be legal?

In May 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may pass laws allowing sports betting. The ruling overturned the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act which was a federal law that banned states from “sponsoring, operating, advertising, promoting, licensing or authorizing” sports gambling. The 1992 law exempted Nevada, Oregon, Delaware and Montana which had sports betting systems or lotteries already in place. The suit brought before the Supreme Court was brought by New Jersey and supported by a group of 18 other states. In order to legalize gambling each stat…  e would have to pass their own laws regulating it. Opponents include college sports organizations, including the NCAA, who worry that betting will encourage coaches and athletes to cheat. Proponents argue that betting will bring billions of dollars in tax revenues to state governments who need it to fund major spending liabilities including Medicaid and pensions.