It’s information overload everywhere, and there’s not time enough to sleep and eat and stay fully apprised of what’s happening on this crazy blue dot of ours (two out of three ain’t bad). Here’s the weekend (or occasionally fashionably late) Sports Handle item, “Get a Grip,” recapping the week’s top legal U.S. sports betting stories, highlighting some fresh news and rounding up key stories.
Adios, PASPA: Reflections two years after historic ruling
LAY OF THE LAND: Sports betting’s growth in U.S. ‘extraordinary’ [Chalk]
BEHIND-THE-SCENES: Story behind the two-year-old historic SCOTUS ruling [NJOG]
MAY 14: Two years post-SCOTUS ruling, reflecting on post-PASPA world with 22 legal states and counting [VSiN]
STATE COFFERS: Top 10 states — by revenue earned from sports betting [Axios]
FIRST-PERSON: 60 minutes that changed sports betting forever [SH]
Other industry things
BRING YOUR MASK: ‘Cabin fever’ leads to big reopening weekend for South Dakota casinos [CNBC]
TUMBLEWEED AND CREATIVITY: The world of sports betting in a world without sports [SI.com]
UP IN THE AIR: If Michigan mobile sports betting was a prediction market, there’d be swings [MI Bets]
REFERENDUM: Louisiana Senate sends two sports wagering bills to the House, both excluding statewide mobile wagering [SH]
COLORADO: Monarch Casino distinguishes itself with in-house sports betting strategy [Centennial]
APRIL NUMBERS: Online casino revenues were small consolation amid shutdowns [NJOG]
$54.6 million was bet with New Jersey sportsbooks in April. pic.twitter.com/UdSmYiU3FQ
— David Payne Purdum (@DavidPurdum) May 13, 2020
RULES COMMITTEE: TN Lottery answers dozens of questions from sportsbook operators [TN Bets]
DKNG: George Soros wagers on sports betting with DraftKings stake [Bloomberg]
NEVADA DRIVE-THRU: Curbside mobile signups provide respite for sports bettors thirsting for action [SH]
RE-OPENING: Penn closes $600M financing to ‘accelerate’ interactive effort, reopening Miss. and La. casinos next week [CDC Gaming]
Sports things!
“He wasn’t out to embarrass baseball. He was out to pursue a dream that we thought at the time was delusional, but we should not have come down on him that hard.”https://t.co/AQqIILfrJp
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 15, 2020
BAG IT, MICHAEL: Michael Jordan was ‘rightly insulted’ by 1994 SI story — says the writer of the story [WashPo]
TIGER & PHIL SIDEKICKS: Peyton Manning vs. Tom Brady: Who has the better golf handicap [RotoGrinders]
COVID-19: Rays’ ace Blake Snell blasts MLB’s proposed pay cuts: ‘I’m risking my life’ [theScore]
BOBBY BONILLA RETIREMENT PLAN: Prince Fielder (retired since 2016) might be MLB’s highest-paid player in 2020. [Yahoo!]
NO AWKWARD SILENCE: Joe Buck: Fox planning to pump in crowd noise, digitize fans for NFL broadcasts [SI.com]
A new Means Streets episode is up with my guest @jj_redick!
-hosting podcasts
-uncertainty about NBA/COVID, as his Pelicans are chasing a playoff spot
-his important offseason between soph/junior year that changed his b-ball careerApple podcasts: https://t.co/IeJAITLqrG
— Andy Means (@ameansy) May 15, 2020
No team has ever completed the Bird Gauntlet. Fascinating tidbit from @NFLreddit.
Running the Bird Gauntlet means beating in one season (playoffs included):
– Eagles
– Falcons
– Cardinals
– Seahawks
– Ravenshttps://t.co/wFzmgsZHv0 #offseasoncontent— Brett Smiley (@brettsmiley) May 12, 2020
