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Caught Red Handed, But What is Pete Rose’s Crime?

Sep 10, 2025

Caught Red Handed, But What is Pete Rose’s Crime?

What exactly is the hustle that has kept Pete Rose from safely sliding into the Baseball Hall of Fame? Recently released FBI files from the late 1980’s put little flesh on the skeleton in Rose’s closet, but plenty of normative questions remain about Rose’s now posthumous candidacy. The FBI reports lay out how a local…

Silencing the Sidelines: Can Policies Protect Athletes from Harassment Without Suppressing Free Expression?

Sep 2, 2025

Silencing the Sidelines: Can Policies Protect Athletes from Harassment Without Suppressing Free Expression?

With the new football season just around the corner, sports fans are donning their jerseys, checking the stats, and dialing in to watch their favorite athletes take the field. While the beginning of a new season is a time filled with excitement and anticipation, for many athletes – both professional and collegiate – it will…

Horses, Casinos, and Prediction Markets – Old & New in Saratoga Springs

Aug 22, 2025

Horses, Casinos, and Prediction Markets – Old & New in Saratoga Springs

Last week, I moderated a panel on the sizzling topic of prediction markets at the annual Racing and Gaming Conference at Saratoga. This conference brings together legislators, regulators, and industry professionals from a wide range of organizations in the gaming ecosphere – from horse trainers, to representatives of game suppliers and sports betting companies. It…

FAIR Treatment of Lost Bets

Jul 25, 2025

FAIR Treatment of Lost Bets

Introduction On July 7, 2025, Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) introduced H.R. 4304, the Fair Accounting for Income Realized from Betting Earnings Taxation Act, commonly known as the FAIR Bet Act.[1] Two days later, Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV),  Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the Senate companion bill, S….

YouTube Fills Federal Policing Void on Gambling

Mar 17, 2025

YouTube Fills Federal Policing Void on Gambling

The ultimate inhibitor of the regulated gambling industry is the illegal ever-present offshore market. The regulated industry has been consistently asking for assistance from law enforcement to assist them in stamping out the illegal market – that, unlike the regulated industry, is not required to abide by any of the mechanisms that protect consumers. The…

The Election Betting Experiment: Will Congress Rebottle This Genie?

Jan 8, 2025

The Election Betting Experiment: Will Congress Rebottle This Genie?

Just this fall, Americans in all 50 states were able to put their money where they mouth was on the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election—what many news outlets call, and even one platform itself has called, election betting. Betting, notably, is not legal in all 50 states. Before the Supreme Court’s ruling, sports betting…

Our Big Three Predictions for the Online Gaming Industry in 2025

Jan 6, 2025

Our Big Three Predictions for the Online Gaming Industry in 2025

In 2025, we will celebrate the seventh anniversary of the repeal of PASPA and the resulting increase in legalization and popularity of various offerings in the gaming industry – namely sports wagering and online casino gaming. We predict 2025 will bring the following to the industry: (1) further actions from state authorities to fight back…

Missouri Votes for Legalized Online and Retail Sports Betting

Nov 6, 2024

Missouri Votes for Legalized Online and Retail Sports Betting

Yesterday, the citizens of Missouri voted in favor of Amendment 2 to legalize online and retail sports betting by a small margin of under 7,500 votes.  Missouri is now set to be the 39th state to legalize sports betting. Under the amendment, the retail and online sports wagering rights were granted to Missouri casinos and…

SAFEly symbolic?

Oct 14, 2024

SAFEly symbolic?

Last month two U.S. lawmakers, Rep. Paul Tonko D-N.Y. and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., introduced the Supporting Affordability and Fairness with Every Bet Act (i.e., the SAFE Bet Act).[1] The Act sought to implement federal minimum standards for all sports betting operators throughout the United States. The lawmakers seemingly put forth the bill because of…

When Sports Bettors Win, So Does the IRS

Oct 7, 2024

When Sports Bettors Win, So Does the IRS

Sports betting and adjacent industries have exploded in the United States.  One area that continues to cause confusion is the taxation of these businesses – both for the companies and the individual players. For individual bettors, the IRS has clear rules on gambling income that predate the recent explosion of the sports betting industry. In…