By popular request — a deluge of 10 emails — here's more (Allan Malamud) mud in your eye:
—We have a tie for biggest sports-related hypocrites of the year: Nevada state officials and the National Football League.
Nevada's Gaming Control Board banned fantasy football in the state, saying it was not a game of skill, as the fantasy leagues claim, but a game of luck, and was, thereby, gambling.
Of course, they are right.
But golly, how much of that decision was based on a righteous judgment about doing the right thing and how much was based on the fear that too much gambling action was being diverted from the state's bread-and-butter casinos?