What the Supreme Court ruling means
CLEVELAND – On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down federal law prohibiting sports gambling. If you’re a casual fan and your home state approves sports gambling in the wake of the decision, how does it affect you? Here’s a Q&A offering the basics of gambling, what the Supreme Court ruling means, and what could happen down the road. 1. In a nutshell, what does
the ruling do? It gives control to states to determine whether gambling on sports will be legal. Currently, Nevada is the only state that allows fullscale sports gambling, and it was grandfathered after the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act was passed. PASPA banned states from offering sports gambling. (Note: We keep putting “sports” before gambling, because table games are allowed in several states.)
2. Will all states suddenly make sports gambling legal?
No. Ryan Rodenberg has a smart breakdown on ESPN of the state-by-state likelihood of who will rush to enact legislation and who will take a more cautious approach. (He sees California among states that is in the ‘moving toward legalization ’ category.)
One of the strengths Yuba City High’s baseball team wanted to flex in the playoffs is powering the ball to the opposite field.
The Honkers gave the Bethel High squad a demonstration of that on Tuesday night.
Hosting its first-ever Sac-joaquin Section Division III playoff game at Winship Field, secondseeded Yuba City jumped out to an early start that led to a 10-0 win over No. 15 Bethel for its 14th consecutive playoff-opening win.
The game was called after five innings because of the mercy rule.
Moving into the second round, Yuba City (23-5) will host No. 7 Rio Americano of Sacramento, which defeated No. 10 Vanden 11-1 also on Tuesday. That game will also be played at Winship Field; start time is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
In the bottom of the first inning, the Honkers got their bats rolling when leadoff hitter Matt Clayton, who celebrated his 18th birthday on Tuesday, doubled to left field. Then Brad Madison put down a perfect bunt that traveled down the third base line and went unattended too long, which allowed Madison to be safe at first and moved Clayton to third.
In the No. 3 spot for Yuba City was Blake Baca. Working on a 2-0 count, Baca, a right-handed hitter, smacked the over the rightfield fence for a three-run homer off Jaguars pitcher Noah Fiso that gave the Honkers a 3-0 lead.
“First inning set the stage for the rest of the ball game,” said Yuba City head coach Dave Rodriguez. “We’ve talked about hitting the opposite field all year. And that’s what we did. We put the ball in play.”
The next three Honkers continued their team’s hitting fest that led to a 5-0 lead. Bryce Rogers singled down the third base line. Then winning pitcher Logan