The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA or Bradley Act) defined the legality of sports betting and was effectively a federal ban, carving out exceptions for only a few states. In 2018, the Act was overturned by the Supreme Court in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association.1 Since then, sports betting has been legalized in 38 states and the District of Columbia. Online sportsbooks have made it easier for gamblers to make a variety of bets from moneyline bets, which require choosing the winner of a game, to proposition bets ("prop" bets), that often have nothing to do with the final score. According to the Census Bureau, sports betting is now the fastest-growing source of state tax revenue.2
Below are some general resources on sports betting. You may also want to search by particular sport or sports betting application. Additional resources can be found on the Gaming & Gambling page of the Tourism and Travel research guide.
The following materials link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to digital content are provided when available.
The Economics of Sports Betting by 
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
International Sports Betting by Journal of Gambling StudiesJournal of Sport and Social IssuesThe following links provide information on sports betting, sports betting statistics and more general gambling related resources.
The subject headings listed below are specifically related to sports betting. Choose the topics you wish to search from the following list of subject headings to link directly to the Catalog and automatically execute a search that will allow you to browse related subject headings
Additional works on sports related industries in the Library of Congress may be identified by searching the Library of Congress Online Catalog under appropriate Library of Congress subject headings. Please see the individual sports business sections of this guide for catalog searches relating to them. For assistance in locating the many other subject headings which relate to the sports business, please consult a reference librarian.
