Arizona MLB Plan Would Come Without State Sports Bettors
Reports that all 30 Major League Baseball may begin play in Arizona as early as next month tantalized sports fans. U.S. sports bettors are excited for the first domestic competition in weeks.
Interview: 888’s Yaniv Sherman Talks Coronavirus Gambling Impact
Coronavirus has altered or effectively halted nearly every industry in all corners of the world. Legal gaming has been especially devastated. As casino floors and hotel rooms sit vacant, Americans have shifted their attention to online casinos and poker rooms in the handful of states with regulated online poker.
Kentucky Gaming Expansion Left Out of Budget
Kentucky gambling expansion will have to wait even longer after lawmakers passed an abridged budget for the upcoming fiscal year in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Online Sportsbooks with In-Person Registration Feel Handle Pinch
Global event cancelations due to the coronavirus outbreak have eliminated nearly every betting option for sportsbooks. In states with in-person registration requirements, those restrictions mean new bettors have virtually no options for legal betting.
Nebraska Casinos Face Further Coronavirus Challenges
Legalizing commercial casinos in Nebraska was an uphill climb even before the COVID-19 outbreak. Casino backers said as recently as this week they will still push for three gaming referendums on the 2020 ballot, but it remains a difficult challenge to collect enough signature to do so ahead of a July 2 deadline.
Sportradar’s Mark Balch Talks eSports in the Time of Coronavirus
The coronavirus outbreak has impacted nearly every social interaction across the world, shuttering nearly every professional sports league and crippling the fledgling U.S. sports betting market less than two years after it was allowed to grow nationwide.
Washington Sports Betting Bill Boosts Tribes, Excludes Others
Washington sports betting will soon be legal, but it will be with one of the most limited reaches of any of the two-dozen states already accepting wagers or set to do so.
Missouri Sports Betting Legislation On The Ropes in 2020
The Missouri state capitol closed Tuesday, another blow to legal sports betting and likely ending hopes for legal wagering in 2020.
California Sports Betting Likely Delayed Until At Least 2022
The nation’s largest potential sports betting market won’t start taking bets until at least 2022 after a campaign to put legal wagering on the 2020 ballot was suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak. California’s constitution requires a statewide voter-backed amendment, which now can’t come until the 2022 midterm elections at the earliest.
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