A soon-to-be-published academic paper on the state of legalized sports betting in America spells out how we got here, but also – and perhaps more importantly – where the failures in the system lie.
The paper, titled Legalized Sports Wagering in America, will be published in an upcoming edition of the Cardozo Law Review, and was penned by John Holden of Oklahoma State University, Marc Edelman of the City College of New York, and Keith Miller of Drake University Law School.
One of the trio’s main issues with the sports betting landscape is how the major sports leagues have received, and continue to receive, “special treatment” from numerous state legislatures when it comes to “integrity fees, data mandates, and other unnatural means of expanding their rights over sports game data as a means to ensure for themselves a direct share of the revenues from legalized, licensed sports wagering,” the paper explains.
Holden, in an interview with Sports Handle, expanded on this issue.