It was the ’90s pop-rock band Soul Asylum that sang the lyrics, “Trying to do the right thing, play it straight / The right thing changes from state to state.”
Frontman Dave Pirner presumably didn’t have legalized sports betting in mind when he wrote those words, but they do apply to this rapidly expanding sector of the gambling industry. The rules for what you can and can’t bet are, literally and figuratively, all over the map.