Arkansas mobile sports betting advances – without sportsbook support
Arkansas regulators advanced statewide mobile sports betting rules Thursday despite opposition from the nation’s leading sportsbook operators. The rules, which would make Arkansas the first southern state with both retail casinos and statewide mobile sportsbooks, also require online operators to give 51 percent of gaming revenues to their brick-and-mortar partners, the first such requirement among […]
Read MoreBreaking down 4 (more) 2021 sports betting legalization candidates
California, Georgia, Missouri and Kansas are four leading candidates to approve sports betting in 2022. They are not alone. Though each of the following face their own respective political and/or logistical challenges, here are four more states that could pass sports betting legislation next year: Massachusetts It seems that just about every elected official in […]
Read MoreBreaking down 4 sports betting legalization candidates for 2022
After COVID-19 curtailed state legislative sessions nationwide in 2020, lawmakers more than made up for lost time in 2021 on the sports betting legalization front. Nearly a dozen states passed sports betting legalization bills or accepted their first legal wagers in 2021, capping off another busy stretch in the three years since the Supreme Court […]
Read More2021 sports betting legislation year in review; biggest disappointments
Though 2021 was a groundbreaking year for the U.S. sports betting market, several states either failed to pass meaningful legislation or did so with major handicaps. Here are four states that largely disappointed this year: New York tax, structure upsets market In 2022, New York will be the most populated state accepting legal sports bets. […]
Read More2021 sports betting legislation year in review; 4 best surprises
After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered 2020 legislative sessions (and much of the rest of society), elected officials returned to their respective statehouses with (mostly) uninterrupted sessions. For a handful of these states, the 2021 session gave elected officials enough time to pass legal sports betting bills. Here are the best developments from […]
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