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 through the country since the federal ban on sports gambling — in states other than Nevada — was overturned in 2018. Hartgraves said his department doesn’t have “hard numbers” for people who seek help for problem gambling through the state. There’s also a self-exclusion list for sports betting and fantasy sports.” Three middle-aged friends spent most of their Friday at Desert Diamond, enjoying March Madness with legal sports gambling for the first time.

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Bill would ban sports betting ads during games and forbid bets on college athletes
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Bill would ban sports betting ads during games and forbid bets on college athletes

Associated Press  

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The federal government would ban in-game advertising and bets on college athletes under a sports betting regulation bill proposed by two northeastern legislators. The legislation already faces strong opposition from the gambling industry, which has said for years that it should self-regulate sports betting advertising to avoid the federal government imposing standards on it. The American …

NCAA president: prop betting on college athletes ‘enormously problematic’
9 months ago

NCAA president: prop betting on college athletes ‘enormously problematic’

Associated Press  

GLENDALE, Ariz. — NCAA President Charlie Baker has already been pushing for states with legal wagering to ban betting on individual performances for college athletes. Shortly before the final game of the men’s basketball season, Baker called prop betting “enormously problematic” for college athletes and highlighted a successful push to get some states like Ohio, Vermont and Maryland to remove …

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 …

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 …

As legalized gambling becomes pervasive, NCAA rules against it remain strict with tough penalties
1 year, 8 months ago

As legalized gambling becomes pervasive, NCAA rules against it remain strict with tough penalties

Associated Press  

More than 40 athletes from Iowa and Iowa State could be facing discipline from both law enforcement and the NCAA for impermissible online wagering. As legal gambling on games has become pervasive, NCAA rules prohibiting it remain strict and college sports leaders are cautious about dialing them back. College athletes can bet on horse racing where it is legal and …

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, …

Endorsement: No on Propositions 26 and 27. Legalizing sports betting stacks the odds against Californians
2 years, 3 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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Legalized betting could change how we watch sports
5 years, 9 months ago

Legalized betting could change how we watch sports

Salon  

As part of an ongoing investigation into video gambling and its impact in Illinois, ProPublica Illinois is keeping an eye on broader gambling issues in the state and around the country. During an interview with WBEZ, the chief architect of the state’s sports gambling package shared some early makings of a bill, which could include a “lottery-based” ticket approach, mobile …

Column: In California, legal gambling’s bets don’t produce big jackpots for state government
5 years, 10 months ago

Column: In California, legal gambling’s bets don’t produce big jackpots for state government

LA Times  

The California Lottery provides only around a penny of every dollar spent on education in the state. Sacramento Bureau Chief Few noticed last week when a proposed ballot measure — the kind that used to spark intense debates over legalized gambling — fizzled out, perhaps a sign that powerful interest groups are no longer willing to place big bets on …

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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