Category: Legal Sports Betting

A comprehensive gaming bill that includes Indiana sports betting easily passed the state Senate on a third reading Tuesday. The Indiana Senate approved the bill on a 38-11 vote. The proposed legislation now moves across to the House after facing very little resistance in the upper chamber. Indiana began considering sports betting legislation back in January. The current bill, S 552, is a combination…

The Stars Group and the NBA are taking their sports betting partnership down under. In a Tuesday press release, the league announced that it has brought on BetEasy as its “official wagering partner” in Australia. The online sports betting leader in the country, BetEasy is majority owned by The Stars Group, which itself inked a sports betting deal with the NBA in December under the BetStars brand. Not the first international deal for NBA The NBA…

Happy Monday, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back to our legislative recap. We spend our every waking moment tracking sports betting bills and monitoring legislative hearings so that you don't have to, and this is the place where we try to sum it all up for you at the end of the week. Here are the vitals for US sports betting right now: States with…

The NBA issued a lengthy statement in response to a recent ESPN report digging back into the decade-old scandal involving former referee Tim Donaghy. And it used it as a platform to address legal sports wagering. The NBA on sports betting today While refuting some of what ESPN reported about Donaghy and the allegations that he manipulated games for betting purposes, the NBA still said…

The state racing commission pushed Arkansas sports betting a step closer to reality Thursday by approving governing rules. The Arkansas Racing Commission issued proposed rules in January following state voters approving legal sports betting in November. According to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, commission approval of the 314-page rules draft sends it on to state legislators. A legislative committee will review the rules next week…

Why is a Major League Baseball team investing in a company that enthusiastically provides odds for offshore sportsbooks? That’s the question I have in the wake of sports betting media company The Action Network completing a $17.5 million Series B funding round. The Action Network + an MLB team That funding round, Action Network loudly declared that money largely came from places with ties to…

New Governor Ned Lamont left Connecticut sports betting out of his first budget proposal Wednesday, but called it a “building blocks for a balanced budget in the future.” Despite citing the need for new revenue to close a $3.2 billion deficit, Lamont isn't ready to count on revenue from sports betting or recreational marijuana sales. He supported both issues  during his campaign, but excluded them…

Incoming Gov. J.B. Pritzker included Illinois sports betting revenue in his budget proposal to the state legislature Wednesday. But the parameters he outlined to authorize the activity could make it difficult to reach expected revenue totals. Pritzker slotted for an ambitious $217 million in the state budget from sports betting in FY 2020. That total is based largely on making available 20 interactive sports…

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie forayed into the gambling world through the landmark case that felled PASPA. For his role in the lawsuit that brought legal sports betting to the United States, Christie will enter the Sports Betting Hall of Fame. Sports Betting Community (SBC) administers the Hall of Fame, which it created in 2016, and will conduct the induction event during the…

Incoming Gov. J.B. Pritzker will include revenue from Illinois sports betting when delivering his budget proposal to the state legislature Wednesday, according to an advance briefing to lawmakers Tuesday. As the new Democratic governor who upended a Republican incumbent, Pritzker holds a lot of sway with his party members. Democrats dominate in each chamber of the Illinois General Assembly. Illinois Rep. Mike Zalewski, who…