Judge Sleet’s ruling moves Delaware closer to legal sports betting

We reported last week that the four major sports leagues in the United States were hoping to slow down the implementation of legal sports betting in Delaware by convincing Judge Gregory M. Sleet to place an injunction against single game betting in Delaware. Forunately, Jugde Sleet denied the request by the major pro sports leagues [...]

Delaware Sports Betting Lottery Contract Goes To Scientific Games

No matter what happens with the legal B.S. between the NFL and the state of Delaware concerning single game football betting, there will be a sports betting lottery system up and running for the 2009 football season. Scientific Games (Nasdaq: SGMS) was awarded the contract on Wednesday of this week by the state of Delaware.
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Delaware Sports Betting Brings In Some Legal Help

The NFL is doing all it can to slow down the state of Delaware so they can not initiate a full single game sports betting system by the start of the 2009 football season. It looks like the state of Delaware will continue to move ahead for now. Word did come down yesterday that a [...]

Everyone is trying to stop sports betting in Delaware

I was just saying to a friend the other day how I was surprised about the low chatter going on around legal sports betting in Delaware with the first NFL preseason game just a couple of weeks away. Well I guess I spoke to soon as a small contingent of U.S. senators and the 4 [...]

Delaware prepares for the promise of sports betting

Here we have another article talking about single betting as if it is a 100% certainty for Delaware sports betting. The NFL and their goons, I mean lawyers, are going to do everything they can to make sure the 6 team parlay card is the only viable option for NFL betting in Delaware.
At Delaware Park, [...]

Corzine says no sports betting in NJ is unconstitutional

I absolutely love that ESPN and other major news organizations are all over this story. It is amazing to me when all seems to be well and good in the USA, everyone hates gambling. As soon as we hit hard time, every state is looking for a way to make cash and they know sports [...]

Roger Goodell: NFL not trying to be ‘high and mighty’ about gambling

An article published today in the USAToday Sports section details some of Roger Goodell’s thoughts on NFL Gambling.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday he does not see a conflict between the NFL embracing partnerships with state lotteries and taking a hard-line stance on sports betting that was approved in Delaware last month.
Goodell told Bob Glauber of [...]

Delaware Sports Betting Ignites Regional Competition

You could say Governor Jack Markell “cashed in” last week when his proposal to legalize sports betting in Delaware won by a landside vote of 17-2.  The Senate’s approval helped Delaware become one of only four states in the nation to have this luxury.  It now joins Nevada, Montana and Oregon as those exempt from [...]

Frank Deford says gambling in Delaware is a sure bet

Another well respected voice of the sports media feels that sports betting in Delaware is a good bet:
To me, the United States gets more and more conflicted. People argue whether we’re a center-right or center-left country. But suppose there’s no center anymore, so we’re just center-less?
Nothing illustrates this, our national ambiguity, more than the issue [...]

NFL approves logos for lottery but fights Delaware betting

What happened to NFL claim that gambling is bad and evil?
Since the discussions began months ago, some here in Delaware thought the big, bad National Football League was going to blow the lid right off the state’s attempt to introduce legalized sports betting by invoking the “integrity” of its port.
After the NFL filed its huge [...]

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