After a week in which an alleged co-conspirator of a banned NBA player was charged with wire fraud for a betting scheme involving NBA games and Major League Baseball banned and suspended players for betting on the sport, the congressional testimony delivered by major sports league commissioners on June 26, 1991, seems downright prophetic.

NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, NBA commissioner David Stern and MLB commissioner Fay Vincent were witnesses in a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing devoted to legislation that would effectively ban sports betting. The following year President George H.W. Bush signed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act into law. PASPA made it illegal for 46 states (Nevada, Delaware, Oregon and Montana were excluded) to authorize sports betting.

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