Arkansas politicians and college administrators are uncertain how they will respond to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday that enabled individual states to pass their own legislation on sports gambling.
For the first time since the now-repealed Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act was passed in 1992, the state of Arkansas has the ability to amend its 1953 law that made it illegal "for any person, partnership, or corporation" to gamble on "any other sport of game for the purpose of gaming."
Arkansas already has a gambling presence with horse racing at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs and with greyhound racing at Southland Park in West Memphis -- locations where people also gamble on "electronic games of skill" -- and Gov.