Native American tribes propose initiative to legalize sports betting in California
5 years, 1 month ago

Native American tribes propose initiative to legalize sports betting in California

LA Times  

Betting on Lakers and Rams games would be legal in California under an initiative proposed Wednesday by a coalition of Native American tribes that want a piece of the action. The filing of papers for an initiative supported by 18 tribes led by the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians comes just four months after state Sen. Bill Dodd and Assemblyman Adam Gray introduced a bill that would also put a sports betting measure on the 2020 ballot. “We are very proud to see tribes from across California come together for this effort, which represents an incremental but important step toward giving Californians the freedom to participate in this new activity in a responsible manner.” Attorneys for the proponents filed papers Wednesday with the state attorney general’s office seeking a title and summary for the initiative that would allow them to begin circulating petitions to qualify the measure. “We would be disappointed at any initiative that allowed sports betting but that didn’t include card clubs,” said Kyle Kirkland, president of the California Gaming Assn.

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Opinion: Why California should continue to hold the line against sports betting
9 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Why California should continue to hold the line against sports betting

LA Times  

Where sports betting is legal, you can bet pitch by pitch or shot by shot from your mobile phone. Americans wagered a record $119.84 billion on legal sports betting in 2023, but California should continue to hold the line and just say no to what has become the most popular game in town. The sports betting companies want nothing more …

The odds for more sports betting expansion could fade after rapid growth to 38 states
1 year ago

The odds for more sports betting expansion could fade after rapid growth to 38 states

Associated Press  

— At his suburban St. Louis home, Brett Koenig can pull out his smartphone and open a sports betting app. “So that can create some friction.” The states where sports betting remains illegal are Alabama, Alaska, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah. Kevin Stitt announced a plan in November to allow in-person sports betting …

Legalized sports betting continued to grow in 2023, though some significant states remain resistant
1 year ago

Legalized sports betting continued to grow in 2023, though some significant states remain resistant

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Legalized sports betting continued its …

Legalized sports betting continued to grow in 2023, though some significant states remain resistant
1 year ago

Legalized sports betting continued to grow in 2023, though some significant states remain resistant

Associated Press  

LAS VEGAS — Legalized sports betting continued its expansion this year while also factoring into scandals in college athletics and suspensions in the NFL for players who violated the league’s gambling policy. Another state, Florida, relaunched sports betting after a two-year legal battle ended when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in October in the casinos’ favor. There was no apparent …

Sports betting is back on agenda at Minnesota Legislature
1 year, 10 months ago

Sports betting is back on agenda at Minnesota Legislature

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Legalizing sports betting is back on the agenda of the Minnesota Legislature, and advocates expressed hope Tuesday that they’ll find the votes to get a plan through the state Senate, where the idea has died before. The Democratic proposal, introduced Monday, would put the state’s Indigenous tribes in control of in-person betting at their casinos as …

Odds are good for sequel to California sports betting effort
2 years, 2 months ago

Odds are good for sequel to California sports betting effort

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The effort to legalize sports betting in California ran headlong into a typical challenge for competing ballot measures as each was battered in a torrent of negative advertising that doomed both to spectacular failure in the most expensive ballot race in U.S. history. “This campaign has underscored our resolve to see California follow more than half the …

Big bet a bust in bid to allow sports gambling in California
2 years, 2 months ago

Big bet a bust in bid to allow sports gambling in California

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The most expensive ballot proposition gamble in U.S. history went bust Tuesday as California voters overwhelmingly rejected sports betting initiatives by Native American tribes and the gaming industry. Tribes who opposed Proposition 27, the mobile and online gambling measure, said voters didn’t want a massive expansion of gambling, they thought it would be easier to become addicted …

Propositions 26 and 27, which would have legalized sports gaming, lose big
2 years, 2 months ago

Propositions 26 and 27, which would have legalized sports gaming, lose big

LA Times  

FanDuel, DraftKings and other online gambling apps are displayed on a cellphone in San Francisco. Propositions 26 and 27 were resoundingly rejected by voters in Tuesday’s election, despite a half-billion dollars in spending to convince Californians to legalizing sports gaming. Leaders of four of California’s most successful Native American tribes with gaming interests are the original proponents of Proposition 26, …

Record spending over California’s legal gambling initiative
2 years, 3 months ago

Record spending over California’s legal gambling initiative

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The campaign that could bring legalized sports betting to California is the most expensive ballot-initiative fight in U.S. history at about $400 million and counting, pitting wealthy Native American tribes against online gambling companies and less-affluent tribes over what’s expected to be a multibillion-dollar marketplace. “They are spending hundreds of millions because billions are on the line,” …

Endorsement: No on Propositions 26 and 27. Legalizing sports betting stacks the odds against Californians
2 years, 4 months ago

Endorsement: No on Propositions 26 and 27. Legalizing sports betting stacks the odds against Californians

LA Times  

Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that states can allow sports betting, legal gambling has exploded across America — leaving some predictable problems in its wake. Proposition 26, backed by several Native American tribes that run casinos including Pechanga and Agua Caliente, would allow sports betting in person at four privately owned horse-racing tracks and at tribal casinos …

California propositions voter guide: Gambling, abortion, EV cars, kidney dialysis and more
2 years, 4 months ago

California propositions voter guide: Gambling, abortion, EV cars, kidney dialysis and more

LA Times  

Proposition 26 would legalize in-person sports betting on tribal lands and at four horse-racing tracks. Along with gambling on sports, the tribes also would be allowed to offer roulette, as well as craps and other dice games, if permitted by individual tribal gambling agreements with the state. Proposition 27 would allow licensed tribes and gambling companies, including FanDuel and DraftKings, …

A lawsuit in Wash. claims Native-run casinos have a monopoly on sports betting
2 years, 7 months ago

A lawsuit in Wash. claims Native-run casinos have a monopoly on sports betting

NPR  

A lawsuit in Wash. claims Native-run casinos have a monopoly on sports betting A federal lawsuit is challenging how Native-run casinos operate, saying they're a monopoly. HYDE: Tribal leaders say that principle of sovereignty is also baked into the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, which says if a state allows gambling, tribes can run casinos in that state. And in Washington, …

Arizona fans love freedom to bet during the NCAA tournament. Will California be next?
2 years, 9 months ago

Arizona fans love freedom to bet during the NCAA tournament. Will California be next?

LA Times  

It was 9:30 a.m. on a Friday, the morning after St. Patrick’s Day, and a man in a yellow dress shirt and brown tie was going berserk. “It’s about time.” A year ago, sports gambling in Arizona remained illegal, pushed to underground bookies, whose illicit business always thrived. “We’re taking a phased approach.” Arizona crashed a movement that has swept …

New sports betting bill puts Minnesota tribes in control
2 years, 10 months ago

New sports betting bill puts Minnesota tribes in control

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The lead sponsor of a House bill to legalize sports betting in Minnesota said Monday that he’s confident that the state’s Native American tribes will drop their longstanding opposition and let it become law because it would put them in control. “If this bill passes, Minnesotans will be able to visit sports betting lounges in casinos …

California voters lean toward legalizing sports betting in new poll
2 years, 10 months ago

California voters lean toward legalizing sports betting in new poll

LA Times  

California voters could see as many as three proposals to legalize sports betting on the Nov. 8 statewide ballot. California California Politics: A sports betting showdown in 2022 California voters could be asked next year whether to legalize betting on professional and college sports. “But legalizing sports betting in California appears to be one of them, at least for the …

Don’t bet on it. Wagering on the Super Bowl is illegal in California
2 years, 11 months ago

Don’t bet on it. Wagering on the Super Bowl is illegal in California

LA Times  

Las Vegas casinos frequently won’t allow you to place bets online from California. But it’s clearly against the law.” Federal laws, such as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and the Illegal Gambling Business Act, bar gaming sites from operating in states that prohibit gambling. California voters are likely to see one or more initiatives on that subject this November …

WA panel approves sports betting; sends to governor
3 years, 7 months ago

WA panel approves sports betting; sends to governor

Associated Press  

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Washington State Gambling Commission on Thursday approved amendments to gambling compacts for 15 Native American tribes that are a major step to allowing those tribes to offer sports betting at their casinos. Members of numerous tribes on Thursday extolled the financial benefits of gambling and said sports betting would expand revenues that are used to support …

California voters will decide in 2022 whether to allow sports betting
3 years, 7 months ago

California voters will decide in 2022 whether to allow sports betting

LA Times  

Amado Nanalang watches basketball games while making bets at a sports book in Las Vegas. The constitutional amendment to allow sports betting was written by Native American tribes that showed their political might in 2008 when they spent $115 million to win approval of four ballot measures that preserved an expansion of gambling they had been granted a year earlier. …

Arizona governor signs bill legalizing sports betting
3 years, 8 months ago

Arizona governor signs bill legalizing sports betting

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. The measure approved by the Legislature adds additional types of table games at tribal casinos and for the first time allows sports betting under licenses issued to tribes and pro sports teams. Tribes will also be given rights to operate nearly 6,300 new slot machines, on top of the 20,500 already allowed, plus a boost every …

Minnesota lawmakers to reintroduce sports betting bill
3 years, 11 months ago

Minnesota lawmakers to reintroduce sports betting bill

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Two lawmakers announced plans Tuesday to introduce legislation that would put Minnesota among 25 other states and Washington, D.C., in legalizing sports betting, hoping to change their luck after attempts in past years failed to gain support. “It’s already done flagrantly and it’s time shine some light on it, put some guardrails around it, protections around it, and …

Competition has begun to capture market for legalized sports gambling in California
4 years, 5 months ago

Competition has begun to capture market for legalized sports gambling in California

LA Times  

People make bets in the sports book at the South Point hotel and casino in Las Vegas. They’re just holding their breath.” Some businesses have already put plans in motion, with Monkey Knife Fight, a fast-growing daily fantasy sports site, making among the most visible early efforts. “To me, a team-centric deal makes a lot of sense.” Asher’s playbook seems …

Tribal casinos sue California for more time to qualify legal sports betting measure amid coronavirus
4 years, 7 months ago

Tribal casinos sue California for more time to qualify legal sports betting measure amid coronavirus

LA Times  

A coalition of California Native American tribes sued the state Tuesday seeking more time to qualify a sports betting initiative for the statewide ballot, arguing that the state‘s coronavirus shutdown kept them from collecting voter signatures in recent months. The new legal claim was filed by the Coalition to Authorize Regulated Sports Wagering, which represents more than 25 Native American …

California could become America’s sports betting capital as rival groups eye November ballot
4 years, 11 months ago

California could become America’s sports betting capital as rival groups eye November ballot

LA Times  

Amado Nanalang watches basketball games while making bets at a sports book in Las Vegas. Last week, a coalition of 18 Native American tribes was given state approval to begin circulating petitions for a statewide ballot initiative that would allow sports betting at tribal casinos and horse racing tracks, but not at rival card clubs or on the internet. “Voters …

Make California sports betting legal? Lawmakers propose measure to go on 2020 ballot
5 years, 6 months ago

Make California sports betting legal? Lawmakers propose measure to go on 2020 ballot

LA Times  

Guests line up to place bets at the sports book at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino in March. Joining a national wave, California lawmakers on Thursday proposed a ballot measure that would legalize sports betting in the state in response to last year’s Supreme Court ruling allowing states to permit wagering. “In short, CNIGA does not support any …

Handful of US states are poised to legalize sports betting
5 years, 8 months ago

Handful of US states are poised to legalize sports betting

Associated Press  

— The number of states allowing sports betting is poised to expand. The nation’s three most populous states — California, Texas and Florida — are not expected to legalize sports betting this year, mostly because of opposition from casino-operating Native American tribes and because it could require amending state constitutions. “A guy who wants to bet on the Chicago Cubs …

Casino-operating tribes influence sports betting debate
5 years, 9 months ago

Casino-operating tribes influence sports betting debate

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Native American tribes have emerged as key players in the legislative debates over whether states should legalize sports betting, with some opposing the idea because it could threaten their casinos and others supporting legalization but only if they retain a monopoly. In many states, tribes are fighting sports betting or taking a go-slow approach because they …

Legalized sports betting unlikely in 3 largest US states
5 years, 10 months ago

Legalized sports betting unlikely in 3 largest US states

Associated Press  

Over the past decade, teams from California, Florida or Texas have competed in more than half the championship series in the four major professional sports — including every NBA final. California, which alone accounts for one-eighth of the U.S. population and has 16 teams among the four major professional leagues, will not be joining the sports gambling states anytime soon. …

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