If anyone wonders why I often write about the antics that go on in academia, it's not merely because I've spent 25 years as an academic — and so I know the way the sausage is made. It is also because higher education in the United States provides nearly limitless fodder for astonishment, outrage or mockery. In any given week it's possible to find multiple instances of manifest silliness, absurdity, or worse.
SEATTLE (AP) — The New York attorney general's decision that daily fantasy sports betting sites FanDuel and DraftKings are illegal gambling operations in his state is a blow to the companies, but the multibillion-dollar industry could have more legal headaches yet to come.
While the sites have opted not to do business in a handful of states, including Washington, where regulators have made clear they're not welcome, they have been up and running in a number of others — like New York — where they're legally dubious. Several states in which the companies are operating have laws similar to New York and Washington, while a few, such as Tennessee, Arkansas and Vermont, have even stricter prohibitions.
