The pending bills would allow those states to maintain their sports betting operations.

The police at Michigan State University closed an illegal sports betting operation here last week.

Mr. Fennelly, the gambling counselor, went to prison in the 1970's for running a sports betting operation.

Online casinos are legal in some countries, among them Britain and Costa Rica, where many sports betting operations are based.

Caridi also admitted running a sports betting operation from his house in East Northport, New York.

Whether you are carrying on the business of receiving or negotiating bets, or conducting pool betting operations in the UK, is a question of fact.

The site bills itself as an offshore facilitator of betting operations, providing "an offshore call center and accounting services" for land-based sports wagering interests.

During the transition, a restructured N.Y.R.A. would run both the tracks and the city's offtrack betting operations.

He eventually went to Chicago, Illinois where he would own a hotel, and probably a sports betting operation, and maintain business interests for the remainder of his life.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported at the time that Rose had made calls listed to telephones in various locations where Basso operated sports betting operations.