On Sports Gambling Regulation & Sports Gambling

“Gambling is inevitable. No matter what is said or done by advocates or opponents of gambling in all its various forms, it is an activity that is practiced, or tacitly endorsed, by a substantial majority of Americans.” So begins a 1976 report from the congressionally convened Commission on the Review of National Policy Toward Gambling. American history offers ample evidence of this inevitability. The nation’s past is as full of gamblers, con men, and speculators as it is yeomen, puritans, and meritocrats. No amount of legislation, and no amount of law enforcement activity, has ever been able to stamp out the American addiction to action.