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Poll: U.S.

divided on

college vs. LEAFS

pro sports

betting

By WAYNE PARRY and EM-
ILY SWANSON
Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP)
— Scrambling to fill out a
March Madness bracket?
Betting lunch money that
you can pinpoint the Final
Four better than co-work-
ers or family?
Good luck! You’re among
about one-third of Ameri-
cans who at least oc-
casionally bet on sports
among friends or through
an office pool, according
to a poll released Wednes-
day by The Associated
Press-NORC Center for
Public Affairs Research.
Still, with all the action on
the NCAA men’s basket-
ball tournament, the survey
finds less support for legal
betting on college sports
than on the pros. Six in 10
in the survey want betting
on professional sports to be
legal in their state, far more
than the 42 percent who
feel that way about col-
lege athletics.
This is the first college bas-
ketball championship since Rinne, Preds blank reeling
the Supreme Court cleared
the way last year for states
to offer legal sports betting Maple Leafs 3-0
if they choose. Eight states
currently allow the wagers:
Delaware, Mississippi, Ne-
vada, New Jersey, Pennsyl- Toronto Maple Leafs right wing William Nylander (29) is defended
vania, Rhode Island, West by Nashville Predators’ Mattias Ekholm (14), of Sweden, in the
Virginia and New Mexico, first period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in
where sports bets are done Nashville, Tenn. Ekholm was penalized for holding on the play.
through a tribal compact.
Many more states are con- Associated Press
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