re: Any progress in LA to legalize daily fantasy?

Likely not, but contact your legislator and ask they support it. It's bullshite that it's illegal. If anything should be illegal it's the brazen theft that is income taxes.

Lately I've said F it, and been playing free tournaments with friends and just paying each other on the side and having out of state friends enter lineups for me.

The politicians can get away with it because the people who most of their bullshite affects are busy working and providing for their families and have no chance to voice their displeasure, unlike the folks who live off the system.