increased local influenza mortality by between 4% and 24%, depending on sport, relative to cities with no professional sports … sports league reopening policy decisions. Results from a difference-in-differences model applied to data from a sample of US … cities that gained new professional sports teams over the period 1962-2016 show that the presence of games in these cities …

Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”) violated the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and thus the U ….S. government may not use PASPA to prevent states from legalizing commercial sports gambling. In anticipation of this ruling, four U ….S. states have already passed new laws to legalize and regulate sports gambling. Meanwhile, fifteen states currently have sports …