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  2. Sports governing body - Wikipedia

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    A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function. Sports governing bodies come in various forms and have a variety of regulatory functions, including disciplinary action for rule infractions and deciding on rule changes in the sport that they govern.

  3. Sports betting - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps the most extreme ban on sports betting is imposed by the NCAA, the main governing body for U.S. college sports. The NCAA reified their position in the wake of various betting scandals, including two high-profile men's basketball episodes in the 1990s—the 1992 University of Nevada, Las Vegas and 1994 Arizona State University point ...

  4. Sports betting systems - Wikipedia

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    Sports betting systems are sets of events that when combined for a particular game for a particular sport represent a profitable betting scenario. Since sports betting involves humans, there is no deterministic edge to the house or the gambler. Systems supposedly allow the gambler to have an edge or an advantage. Sportsbooks use systems in ...

  5. Professional sports league organization - Wikipedia

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    Starting in 2023, all MLS teams play in the Leagues Cup, a competition also involving all sides in Mexico's top flight of Liga MX that serves as an additional qualifier for the Champions Cup. Also, MLS uses playing rules set by the international governing body of its sport. MLS followed its own playing rules until 2004, when it adopted FIFA rules.

  6. Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992

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    The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102–559), also known as PASPA or the Bradley Act, was a law, judicially-overturned in 2018, that was meant to define the legal status of sports betting throughout the United States. This act effectively outlawed sports betting nationwide, excluding a few states.

  7. Betting is the ‘Achilles’ heel’ of US sports. Are leagues ...

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    A teller is counting money before betting opens to the public at Monmouth Park Sports Book by William Hill, ahead of the opening of the first day of legal betting on sports in Oceanport, New ...

  8. Regulation of sport - Wikipedia

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    The regulation of sport is usually done by a sport governing body for each sport, resulting in a core of relatively invariant, agreed rules.People responsible for leisure activities often seek recognition and respectability as sports by joining sports federations such as the International Olympic Committee, or by forming their own regulatory body.

  9. Federal Wire Act - Wikipedia

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    Legal opinions have varied as to whether the Wire Act applies only to sports betting, or applies to all forms of gambling, such as lotteries and casino games. In a 2002 letter to Nevada state officials, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) stated its opinion that the Wire Act "prohibits gambling over the Internet, including casino-style gambling."