Pro leagues, NCAA file against New Jersey gambling

Not to hurt anyone's feelings, but a game is a game.  It's simply entertainment.

You can fill the media with the antics of these soon-to-be-forgotten media creations just as with the ridiculous and gossipy who's pregnant, getting divorced, arrested for DUI, entering drug-rehab nonsense that replaces substantive issues.

How reminiscent of Bread and Circus in another lifetime?

Has there been any global location that has legalized sports betting that hasn't experienced math-fixing and betting scandals? Gov. Christie sure isn't asking!  

And now comes Governor Chris Christie who believes in small government, deficit spending, sucking as much from the poor as possible with expanded gambling in any share, style, size and configuration endorsing sports betting?  This is the Governor who has gone begging to Washington for $$$ for Hurricane Sandy relief because New Jersey is so desperate simply because of Predatory Gambling.

If Predatory Gambling paves the road with Gold, what happened to Atlantic City and Las Vegas?

If Predatory Gambling is so wonderful, why can't New Jersey fund its own Hurricane re-building?

FILE - This Nov. 13, 2012 file photo shows New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaking in Trenton, N.J. The state is facing lawsuits from the major sports leagues and the NCAA for its new gambling laws(Photo: Mel Evans, AP)

Pro leagues, NCAA file against New Jersey gambling

December 7. 2012 - NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The four major pro sports leagues and the NCAA have filed legal papers calling New Jersey's effort to allow sports gambling an "unlawful scheme" and a "blatant violation" of federal law.

The leagues sued Gov. Chris Christie in August after he announced plans to allow gambling on pro and college games at casinos and racetracks. New Jersey's legislature passed a sports betting law earlier in the year.

The state has sought to have the lawsuit thrown out, and the motion filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Trenton was a response to that.

In the brief, the leagues reject New Jersey's argument that a 1992 federal law restricting sports gambling to a handful of states is unconstitutional.

The NCAA has already pulled some events from New Jersey over the dispute.

NBA Commissioner David Stern took Christie to task in a deposition in New York last month saying he's troubled that Christine would "choose to attack a federal law" and that all the state is interested in is "making a buck or two."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2012/12/07/new-jersey-gambling-baseball-nfl-nba-colleges/1754321/