Almost a decade of young NCAA athletes at odds with college gambling

College athletics entered a new era on May 14, 2018, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), a decision that removed the federal barrier preventing states from authorising sports betting.

The ruling dissolved the federal prohibition on sports betting at the collegiate level, but it did not legalize gambling outright. Instead, it gave individual states the authority to decide.

Since that time, athletes and colleges...