movement to legalize sports wagering<\/a>. In 2014, he wrote in a New York Times<\/i> op-ed, “I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated.”<\/p>\nLas Vegas Strikes Out<\/b><\/h2>\n
Las Vegas has been one of the biggest cities in the US without a professional sports team for decades. That will change when the Vegas Golden Knights, an expansion team in the NHL, begins play this fall at the T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n
Sin City doubled down on pro sports when lawmakers successfully attracted Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis to relocate his NFL franchise to the desert. The construction of the team’s $1.9 billion stadium is expected to break ground in the coming months.<\/p>\n
But for baseball, it appears Las Vegas won’t be entering the league anytime soon. In April, Manfred said the city would be on the shortlist for an expansion team, but this week he said those plans are on hold.<\/p>\n
“I think it would be difficult to convince the owners to go forward with an expansion,” Manfred stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PASPA, the federal sports betting law that bans the activity in all but four states, is set to be heard by the US Supreme Court this fall or early next year. Major League Baseball will have a seat in the courtroom, as it’s one of five plaintiffs that sued New Jersey in 2012 to block […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":54486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,61,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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