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Rookie and veteran players in the NFL begin reporting to training camp this week, which means the biggest sports betting season of the year is nearly upon us. And you can bet several states will push hard for their sportsbooks to launch before September 5 — the start of the 2019 NFL season. The gaming commission … Read more
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way,” said every sportsbook in existence, probably. Nearly two months after Pennsylvania launched mobile sports betting, you can finally play at SugarHouse Sportsbook and Online Casino on Apple iPhones and iPads thanks to a workaround from the gaming provider. After logging into SugarHouse via website browser from an iOS … Read more
You’ll be able to bet on sports in Iowa long before the farmers harvest this year’s crop of corn since state regulators are now eyeing the start of football season for a launch date. The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission is scheduled to meet on July 30 to discuss guidelines for the sportsbooks seeking to … Read more
If the North Carolina bill takes one more step, then legal sports betting will cross into the state’s endzone and touch down in the Tar Heel State. House members in the North Carolina General Assembly voted 88-27 in favor of S 154 on Monday, which allows sports betting at two tribal casinos operated by the … Read more
And you bet, baby: If sports betting can make it there, you know, sportsbooks are gonna make it just about anywhere. Come on, come through New York, New York! The wait is finally over: sports betting has arrived in New York. Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady opened the state’s first sportsbook Tuesday morning after … Read more
The Place Beyond the Pines will no longer be reserved for a Ryan Gosling movie title after Schenectady — derived from a Mohawk word meaning “beyond the pines” — makes history tomorrow by launching the first sportsbook in New York. Rivers Casino & Resort is set to open its first legal sportsbook Tuesday, July 16 … Read more
After taking a month for the bill to make its way to his desk, the governor of New Hampshire declared today that all people in his state shall forever “Live Free and Bet!” Gov. Chris Sununu signed the all-inclusive HB 480 into law Friday morning, legalizing land-based, online, and mobile sports betting in New Hampshire. … Read more
After taking a three-month-long pitstop, the North Carolina sports betting bill is entering the home stretch. North Carolina lawmakers advanced S 154 out of its final committee hearing Wednesday. The bill would allow two tribal casinos to offer sports betting and is now scheduled for two readings today on the House floor and a possible … Read more
Greece has given many things to Washington, DC over the past couple of centuries: democracy, architecture, and now — a mobile sports betting app. The DC Council voted Tuesday to approve the Athens-based Intralot as the sole mobile sports betting app provider in the nation’s capital, awarding the company with a $215 million contract. Intralot … Read more
We hope everyone got their fill of franks — Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo certainly did — fireworks, and Fourth of July festivities over the weekend! Now, it’s time to get back to business with our weekly US sports betting breakdown. Arkansas made history last week, becoming the 9th state to launch legalized sports betting … Read more
It could be a long, cold winter without legalized sports betting in Maine after what happened yesterday. Gov. Janet Mills could have signed the sports betting bill into law on Tuesday — legalizing land-based, online, and mobile sportsbooks across the state — but instead chose not to sign or veto the legislation, effectively putting it … Read more
The Fourth of July is almost here, and several states have either lit the fuses, had bills turn out to be duds, or begun their own legal sports betting fireworks show before Independence Day. Arkansas officially opened its first-ever sportsbook on July 1, becoming the 9th state to legalize and launch sports betting. Oaklawn Race … Read more