![handle is hein.journals/remand54 and id is 1 raw text is: Nicholas Luise, Massachusetts Wants the Juice: Analyzing What Is Holding Back Sports Gambling from Becoming Legal in Commonwealth, 54 New. Eng. L. Rev. F., 1 (2020)
Massachusetts Wants the Juice:1 Analyzing What Is Holding Back Sports Gambling from
Becoming Legal in the Commonwealth
Introduction
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of the public has strongly
opposed the concept of gambling on sports.2 These opponents argue that betting on sports can
become incredibly addictive, especially among young citizens, and can even lead to instances of
corruption, which has proven to seriously damage the reputation of both professional and
amateur sports.3 From the Chicago White Sox scandal in the 1919 World Series4 to the Boston
College basketball point shaving scheme, these arguments are not completely without merit.5 As
a result, for a long time, Nevada was the only state that allowed legal gambling on sports in
stand-alone casinos.6 However, as time passed, the legality of sports gambling has become
seemingly inevitable.7 The negative stigma behind sports gambling quickly began to diminish, as
placing a bet on a sports game started being viewed as another form of entertainment.8 Further,
states began to fully comprehend the potential mammoth profits that legalized sports gambling
could bring to their respective state.9
1 Alex Altmix, Understanding Juice/Vig in Sports Betting, BETTINGPROS (Dec. 27, 2018),
https://perma.cc/F2GR-C4EV (explaining that [j]uice, or vig, in sports betting, is the cut or
amount charged by a sportsbook or bookie for taking a bet from a gambler).
2 See Murphy v. NCAA, 138 S.Ct. 1461, 1468-69 (2018) (holding that the federal sports betting
statute preventing any casino outside of Nevada from taking a bet on a sporting event was a
violation of the Tenth Amendment).
s Id. at 1469-70.
4Ron Grossman, Flashback: How 8 White Sox Players Fell from Grace and Were Forever
Marked the Black Sox, CHI. TRIB. (Oct. 4, 2019, 6:30 AM), https://perma.cc/MM6V-GDEQ
(highlighting the 1919 World Series scandal where eight members of the Chicago White Sox
were paid by underground bookies to fix the World Series in exchange for a large sum of
money).
5 See David Purdum, 'The Worst Fix Ever', ESPN (Oct. 3, 2014), https://perma.cc/SS68-WJH5
(highlighting the 1978 point shaving scandal where several Boston
College basketball players were paid by local bookmakers to fix games that they were playing in
to ensure that Boston College would not cover the games' point spread).
6 See Murphy, 138 S.Ct. at 1471.
' See James Herbert, Adam Silver: Legalized Sports Betting 'Inevitable' in More States, CBS
SPORTS (Sept. 4, 2014, 6:59 PM ET), https://perma.cc/9VFX-CJ85.
8 Kieran Hair, Clearing Away the Stigma on Sports Betting, SPORTSANALYTICS (Apr. 27, 2015),
https://perma.cc/DL2E-JWCK.
9 See Katherine Sayre, Mobile Sports Betting Is the Moneymaker as More States Legalize, WALL
ST. J. (Sept. 2, 2019, 7:03 PM EST), https://perma.cc/8K7M-XZT5.
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