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Reports: Temple’s connection to a probe into unusual gambling activity may be part of wider ring

Source material, required reading for some context on today's postcast! https://igamingbusiness.com/sports-betting/online-sports-betting/californias-tribes-wont-try-for-wagering-26/

Show notes, basically just a bunch of links to coverage of yesterday’s hearing so you can see how it was covered in the mainstream and in the gambling industry:

Me

New York Times

ESPN

NPR

Legal Sports Report

Sports Betting Dime

Straight to the Point

Why do we see so much going on in the gray market right now for online gambling? Part of it’s because DraftKings and FanDuel paved the way. I delve more into it in today’s mini-podcast.

Show notes:

• Here’s the agenda for the NCLGS meeting this week in New Orleans, which includes a discussion about sweepstakes.

• Here is a little of the background on the pushback on the sweeps industry.

• Someone should write a book about the lobbying effort to get dozens of daily fantasy sports and sports betting laws passed around the country over about a six-year period. It was fascinating to watch it unfold in real time.

Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang recently wrote a takedown of legal sports betting at Newsweek. Here’s a rant about why I don’t like any of it.

Some show notes:

* Here’s the opinion piece from Yang, if you want to read it. (You don’t need to unless you want to be angry like me.)

* Here’s where Newsweek had been profiting from sports betting content (until recently).

* Here is some of the background of why Newsweek might have stopped doing sports betting content. (Go down to the second item.)