I have changed my mind. I now think the states should be free to allow this if they want to, and if leagues want to keep the sports betters away from the teams, they can hold their events in states that don't allow sports betting. That way states can choose which they would rather have. Low paid jobs in gambling or slightly higher paying but sporadic service sector jobs in the event business.
This is how it works in the U.K. and they have honest sports. It is not as if we don't have a breaking of the rules and enforcement of penalties in sports already. Look at the NCAA, the New Orleans Saints, suspensions for supplements in any number of sports. Throwing of games would be just something else for the enforcers to be on the look out for. Heck, I now remember an NBA referee fired for something to do with trying to fix the spread. And that was with sports betting only in Nevada.
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