Everyone is trying to stop sports betting in Delaware

I was just saying to a friend the other day how I was surprised about the low chatter going on around legal sports betting in Delaware with the first NFL preseason game just a couple of weeks away. Well I guess I spoke to soon as a small contingent of U.S. senators and the 4 major sports in the USA have initiated a lawsuit to stop the implementation of legal sports betting in the state of Delaware.

By CRIS BARRISH and GINGER GIBSON
The News Journal

http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20090724/NEWS01/90724024

Led by the National Football League, America’s major sports leagues and the National Collegiate Athletic Association will jointly sue Delaware today to block sports betting here, an NFL source said.

Delaware’s General Assembly authorized sports betting in May over the objections of the NFL and the NCAA. During arguments before the state Supreme Court on the issue, NFL attorneys suggested they might sue, as they unsuccessfully did in 1976 when Delaware briefly had sports betting.

The lawsuit will be filed around noon, said the league source, who requested anonymity because the NFL’s attorneys in Delaware had not yet submitted the court papers.

Delaware Sports Betting Debate Hits Washington:

by Jeremey Tucker

http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=10771547&nav=menu222_2

So that was the first piece of bad news I read today concerning sports betting in Delaware. Here is the second:

The debate over sports betting in Delaware has reached all the way to Washington. Some national lawmakers are now challenging whether Delaware has the right to legalize sports betting.

Veteran U.S. senators Orrin Hatch, R-Utah and Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney General arguing that Delaware’s plan to offer bets on single games is illegal. The Senators went on to say that sports betting undermines the integrity of sporting events.

Delaware officials though said they have every intention of having sports betting in place by September.

Considering that the Supreme Court of Delaware held up the state’s right to have legal sports betting, I am not sure what these senators think they can accomplish. State sovereignty is not something that can be altered, after all, we are talking about the United States Constitution here people.

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