I’m just going to juxtapose a few items here today, inspired both by an anniversary and some items I’ve read and heard this week.
On this date nine years ago -- just a few months after I started the Hard-Boiled Poker blog -- I wrote a post here noting how the night before, after midnight in fact, a federal bill had passed through both houses that thereafter change the course of online poker in the United States after it was signed into law by then-president George W. Bush a couple of weeks later.
As it happened, that same bill -- the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 -- provided legal justification for the birth of a new online industry, fantasty sports.