Washington, D.C. – American Gaming Association (AGA) President and CEO Geoff Freeman sent a letter today to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on the Environment and the Economy which is holding a hearing on the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017, which would revive Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository: “Yucca Mountain is located […]
April 26, 2017 By Thomas Barrabi As top sports officials and the American public soften their decades-long opposition to legal sports betting, the American Gaming Association, one of the leading advocates for a regulated marketplace for wagers, says that an end to the federal ban on the popular pastime is near. Both the NHL […]
April 6, 2017 By Dustin Gouker A majority of fans of NFL teams said that they would favor a change to the federal sports betting prohibition that would allow states to decide whether to legalize wagering on games. That’s per new polling data commissioned by the American Gaming Association before the NFL voted to move the Raiders to Las Vegas. NFL fans on sports betting: Top-level […]
Washington, DC – American sports fans are poised to wager $36.5 billion on Major League Baseball (MLB) this year, according to an estimate by the American Gaming Association (AGA) released just days before opening day. Of the $36.5 billion that will be wagered, $35.4 billion – or 97% – will be placed illegally through illicit offshore websites and sports […]
By Alex Evans March 30, 2017 Sports gambling is a major industry and the numbers from the American Gaming Association just further prove that point. Sports fans in the United States are expected to wager $36.5 billion on Major League Baseball this season, according to an estimate by the American Gaming Association (AGA). Of the […]
March 21, 2017 By Dustin Gouker If you want to know what the rest of the US is missing on the sports betting front, spend some time in a Las Vegas sportsbook on the first weekend of March Madness. What happens in Vegas for March Madness… I’ve been to Vegas plenty of times before, but never for the opening weekend of […]
March 17, 2017 By Daniel Roberts If you had a hard time choosing a champion when you filled out your March Madness bracket this year, don’t worry—the oddsmakers in Las Vegas weren’t sure either. At the time this year’s tournament tipped off, Vegas sportsbooks still had no clear consensus ‘favorite’ to win it all, ESPN reported. MGM Grand […]
March 14, 2017 By Luke Kerr-Dineen The subject of sports betting in the U.S. is a rather strange phenomenon. Because of an outdated rule based on a premise that people are less and less concerned by, the country is stuck in this strange, hypocritical middle ground: Sports betting is illegal, yet millions of people do it anyway. […]
March 17, 2017 By Allison Torres Burtka Americans will wager $10.4 billion on March Madness this year, the American Gaming Association estimates. That’s 13 percent more than last year’s estimated $9.2 billion. The problem, according to AGA? Ninety-seven percent of that betting is illegal under the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. PASPA, a federal law […]
Washington, D.C. – American Gaming Association (AGA) Vice President of Government Relations Whit Askew released the following statement after President Donald Trump included in his budget proposal $120 million to restore the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository: “AGA opposes any effort to revive Yucca Mountain as a repository and will work tirelessly with the many concerned citizens, […]