The Daily Journal – The odds on New Jersey successfully legalizing sports betting in the state continue to get longer and longer. But officials might as well keep rolling the dice and hoping for the best. A three-judge federal appeals panel last week rejected New Jersey’s effort to overturn a ban on sports betting in all but four states — Nevada, Oregon, Delaware and Montana — that had signed on for the right to conduct sports betting in the early 1980s. New Jersey had its chance too at that time, but didn’t bother. Now, however, state officials see sports betting…