Rhode Island’s in-person sports betting requirement will likely end as soon as this month, curtailing a policy industry stakeholders decry as a handicap to legal betting and a boon to unregulated bookmakers.
Famously, at the height of the euro crisis in the summer of 2012, then head of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi issued a clarion call to the world’s investment community: The bank would do “whatever it takes” to ensure the stability of the single currency.
States are scrambling to plug budget holes caused by the novel Coronavirus shutdowns. One revenue opportunity is gambling expansion, which was already a hot topic in state legislatures before COVID-19. But gambling policy isn’t something states should rush into.
Nebraska gaming backers have reportedly garnered enough signatures to place a casino authorization voter referendum on the 2020 ballot.
What was shaping as the busiest year for U.S. gaming legislation in recent memory was, like nearly every other legislative endeavor, curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
From the century-old Black Sox Scandal to Pete Rose and Tim Donaghy, sports are littered with well-known gambling scandals.
UPDATE July 2, 10:30 a.m.: The court granted the tribes’ petition ahead of Thursday’s hearing. Native American groups now have until Oct. 12, 2020 to gather the signatures required to place the sports betting question on the 2022 ballot. California’s next best hope for legal sports betting will go before a court Thursday.
The federal government has permitted two Oklahoma Native American tribes to take in-person sports wagers, but a state Supreme Court ruling could thwart legal betting in the Sooner State before it begins.
This is the second installment of our two-part interview with Matt Holt, founder and CEO of U.S. Integrity. In Part 2, Matt discusses the new sports gambling education course the company has established in conjunction with Ohio University.
The big news in the legal US online gambling market this morning is Golden Nugget is slated to join DraftKings as a publicly traded US online gambling company.
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