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We’re exactly one month away from the start of the 2019 NFL season, and college football begins even sooner (just 20 days away if you were wondering). But with football season right around the corner, which states are running the two-minute drill to launch sportsbooks and which will have to grab some pine when the … Read more
T-minus one month until Indiana sports betting is legal! But with the clock ticking, it’s unclear if any sportsbooks will be able to accept wagers when the law goes into effect on September 1 — four days before the start of the 2019 NFL season. After meeting for a final time on Thursday to discuss … Read more
What is Iowa most famous for? “Corn and caucus” are what most Americans would say, but in two weeks, you can add “covering the spread” to the list. The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission approved the state’s sports betting rules in a meeting on Tuesday, hitting their target and setting the start date for August … Read more
When the 2019 NFL Hall of Fame Game kickoffs on Thursday, it will mark the beginning of the football betting season in the United States. It may be only a preseason game, but who cares? Football is back, baby! And with several states looking to cross the sports betting legalization goal line before the NFL … Read more
The Tar Heel State took a big step Friday by legalizing sports betting at their two tribal casinos. After Gov. Roy Cooper signed S 154 into law last Friday, North Carolina officially became the seventh state to pass a sports betting law in 2019. The new law classifies sports betting under the tribe’s authorized list … Read more
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