The early legislative season of 2021 has been ripe with newly drafted bills with the specific intent of either establishing legal sports betting within a given state, or expanding the options that are already present. The onset of COVID-19 in 2020 combined with the aftereffects of the 2018 repeal of PASPA by the Supreme Court … Read more
Wyoming Sports Betting A promising piece of legislation is making its way through the Wyoming State Legislature and has now been sent over to the Senate for consideration following debate in the House of Representatives. Legal sports betting in Wyoming appears on track to become a reality with some pundits estimating a rollout date of … Read more
Wyoming is the Equality State, but when it comes to sports betting, the scales have historically been tipped toward offshore sportsbooks. That’s because WY has not been in a rush to regulate domestic sports betting despite several of their neighbors dipping into those waters and extracting healthy profits for their tax collectors. House Representative Tom … Read more
The bill to legalize sports betting in Wyoming had a good run, but in the end, lawmakers had to take the legislation out back and put it down—once and for all. Or at least until 2021. Rep. Tom Walters’ sponsored sports betting bill—H 225—died on the House floor on Friday, February 28, by a 32-27 … 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
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy was the first in line to place New Jersey’s first ever legal sports bet. Even though it was partially done as a political stunt his bet will be remembered as the first legal sports bet in the state of New Jersey. The NJ Governor put $20 on Germany to win … Read more