NEWARK, N.J. -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday dealt another defeat to New Jerseys yearslong attempt to legalize sports betting, setting aside the states challenge to a federal betting ban.The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling invalidated a law passed by New Jersey in 2014 that would have allowed sports betting at casinos and racetracks. The court found New Jerseys law repealing prohibitions against sports gambling violated the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which forbids state-authorized sports gambling.Because PASPA, by its terms, prohibits states from authorizing by law sports gambling, and because the 2014 law does exactly that, the 2014 law violates federal law, the court wrote.Currently, only Nevada offers legal sports betting on individual games. Delaware offers multigame parlay betting in which players must pick several games correctly to win. Both were given exemptions when PASPA was passed.New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and supporters in the state Legislature have sought to legalize sports gambling to help prop up the struggling casino and horse racing industries. Its estimated up to hundreds of billions of dollars are bet illegally on sports every year in the U.S.Monmouth Park, in Oceanport on New Jerseys coast, is the only venue currently set up to offer sports gambling, if it were legalized.The dispute has a lengthy legal history. New Jersey voters approved legal sports gambling in 2011, but the four major professional sports leagues and the NCAA sued the state the following year. The leagues claimed the expansion of betting to New Jersey would damage the integrity of their games and lead to more game-fixing.Sports betting supporters have called the leagues stance hypocritical, saying the leagues condone and profit from sports fantasy leagues in which participants assemble rosters of players from different teams and compete against others.After the 3rd Circuit rejected the states constitutional challenge to PASPA, Christie signed a bill into law in the fall of 2014 that repealed prohibitions against sports gambling at casinos and racetracks. That tactic -- repealing prohibitions instead of approving gambling -- was seen as a way to get around the federal law.Though each court ruling has gone against the state, there have been dissents in two previous three-judge rulings at the 3rd Circuit.One of the judges who dissented in an earlier ruling also wrote a dissent Tuesday. Judge Julio Fuentes wrote that New Jerseys repeal meant it wasnt actually authorizing sports gambling.I do not see how a partial repeal of prohibitions is tantamount to authorizing by law a sports wagering scheme in violation of PASPA, Fuentes wrote.Tuesdays ruling came after a hearing by the full 3rd Circuit.The state can appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court, which has already declined to hear the case once before.A message left with Christies office wasnt returned. Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the state attorney generals office, said the office was reviewing the opinion and considering our options.The NBA, whose commissioner, Adam Silver, has advocated changing the federal law to allow legal sports gambling, on Tuesday said the ruling bolstered that argument.We remain supportive of a federal legislative framework that would protect the integrity of the game and allow those who bet on sports to do so in a legal and safe manner, NBA spokesman Mike Bass said.Through a spokesman, the NFL declined to comment.---Follow David Porter at http://twitter.com/DavidPorter-AP Air Max 720 Baratas Rebajas . - Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie never doubted he would bring back coach Dennis Allen for a third year despite back-to-back 4-12 records. Comprar Air Max 720 Baratas . Jordan Lynch, the all-purpose Heisman Trophy finalist from Northern Illinois, failed to make it into that exclusive club. http://www.airmax720baratas.es/ . PETERSBURG, Fla. 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She made a three-wide bid into contention on the turn, hit the front early in the stretch, and then opened up a daylight lead before holding sway to prevail by a half-length, in a time of 1:34.13 over the good ground.Tower of Texas closed from sixth to edge out 3-1 second choice Mutakayyef. Full Mast finished fourth, and was followed by Arod, Mr. Owen, Glenville Gardens and Passion for Action.It was the eighth straight win for the Robert Masterson-owned Tepin, who hadnt raced since her memorable score over males in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at Ascot in June.We had a good post, said winning jockey Julien Leparoux. She broke good, and relaxed. She was traveling well the whole way. I could do whatever I wanted. I sat on the outside, and just waited to make a kick aat the end.dddddddddddd She got a bit tired at the end, but we expected that. I think shes going to get better, fitter, after this race. She had been off for three months. No matter how many times you breeze her, a race is a race. Thats how you get fit. It was a race to help her get ready for the next one.Norm Casse, assistant and son of trainer Mark Casse, said Tepin will run back at Keeneland on Oct. 8 in either the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile or the Grade 1 First Lady, whichever one is easier. That will be her final prep for the Breeders Cup Mile in November at Santa Anita, which she won last year when it was staged at Keeneland.Shell go to Churchill, said Norm Casse. If we waited until the Breeders Cup at Santa Anita, wed have to breeze her over and over on the main track at Churchill, and I dont know if were really 100 percent comfortable with that. Its better when she runs all the time. Shell probably come back and have an easy work. Well pick out a race at Keeneland, and shell be ready to go.Tepin earned $600,000, and the 5-year-old daughter of Bernstein has won 13 of 21 starts. ' ' '