In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which prohibited sports betting in almost all the country except Nevada.
Since then, one state after another has been legalizing gambling, either in physical sports betting establishments or in betting apps or websites.
Today, about 100 million Americans can bet on their favorite sports teams where they live, according to Go Banking Rates. In fact, more than half of the country has already legalized sports betting. In the last 12 months, the number of states where it was legalized increased from 19 to 32, as well as Washington, DC
Nebraska, Ohio, Wisconsin and Maryland are in the process of launching their own initiatives to legalize sports betting, and the Florida proposal has been awaiting court approval since it was proposed last year .
Louisiana, Oklahoma, Maine and more than a dozen others are moving forward with legislation to allow sports betting in their respective states in the near future, in addition to Texas and California.
That leaves only two states where sports betting is not legal and there is no pending bill to change this. One of them would be Idaho, which has no pending bills. Then there is Utah, the strictest state in the United States, which has resisted all forms of legalized gambling for decades.
So while Utah is unlikely to legalize sports betting in the future, it could soon be the only state to ban it.
In short, it is very likely that sports betting will sports in the United States will soon go from being illegal almost everywhere to being illegal only in one state.
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