Just one quick decade ago, it was virtually inconceivable to engage in authorized sports betting when you live in the United States or in Canada. Both countries professionalhibit betting on nearly all organized sports, in any type at all. The exceptions have always been parimutuel betting, which is only applied to two or three totally different sports (amongst them dog and horse racing). Outside of those sports, the only authorized bets one might place on sports in North America had…