sports betting

The state has reached a deal with the Mohegan Tribe to allow sports betting and online gaming in Connecticut.

The state of Connecticut has reached an agreement with the Mohegan Tribe, owners and operators of the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, to allow new gaming options, including online wagering and sports betting, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday. The governor’s office said this new agreement will generate “tens of millions of dollars” in additional revenue for Connecticut. The new...

Several years of stalemates have stymied a plan to allow sports wagers in Connecticut casinos. Legislation to also allow bets online, which was put on the back burner the last three years, is now back on the table. Those involved in the negotiations are betting this could be the bill’s year to pass. “It feels like everyone wants to...

Legislation to also allow bets online, which was put on the back burner the last three years, is now back on the table.

Huge holes in state budgets due to the coronavirus pandemic and the demonstrated eagerness of fans to bet on sports are likely to spur a further expansion of sports betting and online casino gambling

The U.S. gambling industry has won big at the polls as three states authorized legal sports betting and three others either approved or expanded casino gambling.

It wasn’t that long ago that the NFL didn’t want to have anything to do with gambling operations at all because they feared it would lead to a lack of integrity with their games

For those who haven’t mastered the odds of Belarussian soccer or Russian table tennis, this week’s NFL draft gives U.S. gamblers their first opportunity in weeks to bet on an event about which they actually know something.

A dispute over sports betting proposals in Connecticut intensified Thursday, as a Native American tribal chairman criticized Gov. Ned Lamont for supporting a plan the chairman said would put in jeopardy more than $250 million in gambling revenues the state receives each year from two tribal casinos. Mashantucket Pequot Chairman Rodney Butler sent out a statement berating the Democratic governor…