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A general view of the Fenway Park facade during the game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox on Sunday, July 10, 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Mobile Sports Betting Still Months Away

Massachusetts was an on-again-off-again contender to legalize sports betting in 2022. After months of seesawing back and forth, a conference committee pulled a rabbit out of the hat in late July, and Massachusetts joined the ranks of legal sports betting states. There was a sliver of hope that Massachusetts would be able to get its…

Steven Ruddock

Steven Ruddock

August 3, 2025

News & Analysis
MGM National Harbor, Governor Larry Hogan and Joe Theismann launch sports betting in Maryland with BETMGM at MGM National Harbor on December 09, 2021 in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

3 Things That Could Upend The U.S. Sports Betting Industry

A common saying in online gambling circles is, “you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.” In sports betting, this is generally applied to the spread of legal betting and the near-insurmountable hurdles an anti-sports betting crusade would face. With so many states now in the legalized sports betting column (and reaping the financial…

Steven Ruddock

Steven Ruddock

March 19, 2024

News & Analysis
The state flag of California flies near the Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, May 27, 2018. Negative campaign attacks between Democrats running in crucial House races have begun to tear the party apart in leading up to California's primary election on June 5, 2018.

California Sports Betting Faces Polling Push Back

According to recent polling from UC Berkeley, both California sports betting ballot referendums appearing on the November ballot (Prop 26 and Prop 27) are severely underwater with voters. Prop 26, a tribal-backed initiative that would legalize in-person sports betting at tribal casinos and racetracks, fared slightly better than Prop 27, which seeks to legalize online…

Steven Ruddock

Steven Ruddock

October 8, 2022

News & Analysis
MGM National Harbor, Governor Larry Hogan and Joe Theismann launch sports betting in Maryland with BETMGM at MGM National Harbor on December 09, 2021 in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

What Does Future Sports Betting Innovation Look Like?

If you dig through my voluminous archives of gambling articles, you’ll come across several thousand words on millennials. From 2014ish to 2017ish, millennials were the proverbial talk of the gambling town. Conferences were overflowing with presentations explaining the “Millennial Problem” and how such-and-such product or service could solve it. The funny thing is, the Millennial…

Steven Ruddock

Steven Ruddock

November 25, 2024

News & Analysis
A customer purchase a ticket from a betting kiosk at Barstool Sportsbook in Ameristar Black Hawk in Black Hawk, Colorado on Friday, April 30, 2021.

Three Reasons For Disappointing Ontario Sports Betting Numbers

There was a lot of chatter following the first batch of online gambling and sports betting market and revenue numbers by iGaming Ontario. The release covers the first three months of Ontario’s online gambling industry, which had a much-ballyhooed launch on April 4. After the buildup and excitement, the industry waited months for revenue numbers.…

Steven Ruddock

Steven Ruddock

August 3, 2025

News & Analysis
Runoff election voting began shortly after dawn for some early morning voters on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, at Spring Creek Assembly of God in Edmond.

For California Tribes, Sports Betting Isn’t The Primary Goal

California is the online gambling industry’s white whale. Operators have long sought to find an entry point to the country’s most populous state and the world’s fifth largest economy. The industry has discovered the state’s entry points are expensive, tightly sealed, and well-guarded by a trio of entrenched and powerful gaming interests and a political…

Steven Ruddock

Steven Ruddock

August 3, 2025

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