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00:00but let's begin with yet another sports betting potential controversy and this one surrounding a
00:05very popular player who was about to get paid in the National Basketball Association this is Malik
00:11Beasley on the Detroit Pistons or now it looks like formerly of the Detroit Pistons on allegations
00:16of gambling related events in NBA games and prop bets some developments surrounding one of the top
00:22three agents in the league according to CBS Sports the game in question was against the Milwaukee
00:28Bucks and it was a Trailblazers Bucks matchup the odds on Beasley hitting some unders for rebounds
00:35was two and a half it went from plus 120 to minus 250 he had six rebounds in the game there's a lot
00:41of speculation but really no facts here but we'll keep an eye on this and of course Beasley awaits
00:45his next destination and free agency may have to wait a little bit longer also in the National
00:51Basketball Association and exercise of a contract of 52.6 million dollars for one season can only be
00:59one player getting that right LeBron James has exercised his one-year deal to stay with the Los
01:04Angeles Lakers CEO Rich Paul of Clutchport said so he will play next season in the NBA and then what
01:10happens still remains to be seen the Lakers of course coming off what you would say is somewhat of a
01:15disappointing season with LeBron but they do have Luka Doncic now so we'll see if that changes next year
01:20Julius Randle has decided to stay with the Minnesota Timberwolves his extension is three years
01:26and 100 million dollars Randle coming off a massive double double season with the Timberwolves as they
01:32had a nice run in the NBA playoffs so Randle is staying home same could be said for the beard he is
01:39staying also with the Los Angeles Clippers that of course is James Harden he gets a two-year 81.5
01:45million dollar contract he stays with the Los Angeles Clippers 22.8 points a game last season
01:508.7 assists five rebounds a game he led the NBA with 129 step back three pointers whatever that
01:57stat is in the NBA that's according to Genius Sports the Bucks have signed Bobby Portis to a three-year
02:02contract worth 44 million dollars and Portis will also get a very hefty payday there the Charlotte Hornets
02:11they have made a trade and they acquire Colin Sexton for the Jazz for Yousef Nurkic and so that's
02:17a very big trade no doubt Aldridge Potguider have you ever heard of him he won the Rocket Classic on
02:23the PGA Tour not the biggest names playing of course on the PGA Tour this week he finished 22 under and
02:29he won in a playoff and if you've never heard of him you're probably not the only one but the British
02:33Open is almost a couple weeks away I think so get ready for that as well all right some sad news from
02:38the world of Major League Baseball speaking of Cooperstown Dave Parker the Cobra who is set to be
02:43inducted into the Hall of Fame in July passed away over the weekend one of the great players of his era in
02:49the 1980s of course part of some great teams with the Pittsburgh Pirates including a World Series
02:55Championship Parker also played for the Cincinnati Reds Milwaukee Brewers California Angels Oakland
03:02Athletics was set to be inducted next month passed away he had Parkinson's disease best pitcher in baseball
03:08remains Tariq Skubal of the Detroit Tigers what another day for him yesterday looks like it's
03:14only 13 strikeouts and they beat the twins three to nothing did Detroit the Tigers certainly are going
03:19to need him down the stretch and into the postseason as we get ready for the all-star break Skubal probably
03:23the starter for the American League the Houston Astros get a win over the Chicago Cubs two to nothing
03:28for Amber Valdez six shutout innings the Cubs have been struggling a bit on offense as they go down
03:34two zip here's Craig Council talking about trying to get things figured out yeah well we created I
03:40mean we created a really good chance in the first and then squared up some balls with with say and
03:44Dansby you know squared up two baseballs right at him unfortunately um you know tucks ground balls
03:51very hard hit in the third um and then and then he kind of settled in you know we didn't do much and
03:56then the seventh you know their bullpen to you know that those two guys Abreu and Hader of just they're
04:01just they're two of the best um you know and he Valdez got deep enough in the game where they
04:07could go right to them and you know Abreu did a great job I mean Bushy just you know you did you
04:12kind of that's the one you pitch you want back because I think he took a good swing at the right
04:15pitch and he just missed it um and then Abreu did a nice job all right now to Aaron Judge the New York
04:23Yankees not quiet anymore two more home runs as the Yankees beat the Sacramento A's final score
04:3012 to 5 Judge no doubt will be a starter in the upcoming all-star game in Atlanta but two more
04:36home runs talked about his offensive output on Sunday oh it's huge um especially going to the
04:41rubber match there um must win game especially to go out there and win the series going to be at
04:47Severino who we know know well who's always pitches us tough and you know for Jazz to go out there with
04:52one swing kind of give us a lead and um kind of spark everything and then even some of his defensive
04:56plays they were really impressive man that's why I call the guy the he's a game changer you know he
05:01continues to change the game on both sides of the ball and looking forward to more of that and quite
05:05a laugh for for Marcus on the aisle just what stood out to you about the way he was throwing the ball
05:09attacking their hitters um using every single one of his pitches he's in that sinker cutter combo well
05:16you know we missed him you know he's a guy that's done this for a long time you know you see a lot of
05:21guys who come back from injuries kind of seem a little rusty or they got to work on a couple things but
05:24he looked like he's been you know had 15 starts under his belt so excited to see that excited to
05:29see his next start here when we come back home or come back to play the Mets so it'll be a good one
05:35speaking of the Mets boy what is going on with them it has not been a good run to say the least
05:42they got swept by the Pirates a three-game sweep O'Neal Cruz homer twice for Pittsburgh and they win
05:48the game by a final score of 12 to 1 the month of June has not been kind to the New York
05:55Metropolitans they're going to have to get things going in order to stay on top or even make the
05:59postseason some pressure on Carlos Mendoza no doubt about that after the game talked about the Mets
06:05continued struggles well this has obviously been a rough month and a rough stretch here these 13
06:12straight games a how badly do your guys need the day off tomorrow and what do you hope they take
06:18out of it yeah it's frustrating and we are all frustrated obviously we're not gonna lie we're
06:24better than that and they know that you know it's a tough stretch but we got to be better you know it
06:29starts with me you know we believe in those guys off day tomorrow and then we got another good team
06:35coming coming into town you know and the Brewers they're playing well so we got to bring our best game
06:41um you know like I said continue to support the guys um but obviously we're not happy about it
06:47hopefully a lot hopefully a lot you know they um the tough stretch for sure and um hopefully getting
06:55the day off the mental day off and getting away from the field we can come back and and um
07:02get back on the horse all right so the Mets will try to get things straightened out meanwhile there
07:08have been two trades made in the last 24 hours by the Miami Dolphins and they involve the Pittsburgh
07:13Steelers the Steelers are trading former first round pick Minka Fitzpatrick to Miami for Pro Bowl
07:19quarterback Jalen Ramsey and also in a separate trade Jonu Smith is headed out of South Florida
07:25also goes to Pittsburgh and involved in that deal is a late round swap coming up in about 15 minutes
07:32our sports great insider Adam Kaplan will break down the latest in the National Football League as we
07:37folks are just two weeks away from training camps opening in a couple of different locations in the
07:44National Football League all right welcome back to Newswire here on Sports Grid great to catch up with
07:48Pat Evans from Legal Sports Report it's been about a week since I've seen Pat to go over the latest in
07:53sports betting and hey it's it sort of feels like I'm picking up where we left off here casino gaming
07:58online gaming and some new developments in some smaller states let's start off uh Pat in Maine and this is
08:04you know sort of a state-by-state situation uh some states don't feel like online casino gaming should
08:09be legal and others do seems like Maine is one of those states that's making a big decision this summer
08:15yeah Maine I think yeah when we last talked or when you know I came on last week while you were gone but
08:21when we last talked we didn't really know where this was going you know online casino as a nationwide
08:27you know industry we figured might have a similar wave to sports betting back in 2020 2021 you know
08:36sports betting took over pretty easily passed a lot of states and we thought okay well the next
08:41natural evolution is online casino that has not been the case we've seen lots of headwinds even against
08:47the online sports betting industry which has caused legislators to kind of balk at it and say you know
08:52what maybe let's take a longer look at this and see if it really makes sense and if that much revenue to the
08:57state really does you know positively contribute to the state even with the negatives that might come
09:02with it well in Maine earlier this year they introduced it got a little discussion not a ton
09:07and then it was tabled so we figured like other states that had started talking about it this year we
09:11would you know have to wait future years uh for further discussion but you know about a month ago they picked
09:17up uh discussions pretty heavily the house passed it we thought maybe the senate would not go ahead and
09:23pass it because it was pretty um split there but they went ahead and said okay if you concur we'll
09:28throw it on the appropriations table and i think that's where i last chatted with you about it was the
09:33appropriations table is this table that if anything has a fiscal note if it affects the you know budget
09:39of the state it has to pass this 13 member of legislators table the appropriations table now according to
09:48local media that you know carefully watches everything that happens on this table only about
09:5210 percent of bills get through so again it seemed like a major hurdle that wouldn't happen uh but as
09:58it turns out there were about 300 bills that made it to this table and about 113 i think it was made it
10:04off including the online casino bill so now it goes to governor janet mills whose administration uh testified
10:11against online casino throughout this process so you have to wonder is that indicative of her going to
10:19veto this bill which of course would send it back and it doesn't seem like there's support to override
10:23it plus they're adjourned for the session so it very unlikely that would happen so you'd have to
10:30redo this whole process again to get it to mills again indications in the past if you know she's not
10:36very friendly to gambling even though she was at the head of the state uh when online sports betting was
10:41passed but it's not looking great for this online casino bill which i guess i should break down real
10:47quick it legalizes online casino through the four tribal nations in the state which is just like
10:52online sports betting three of those tribes uh four sports betting partnered with caesars one other
10:58one partnered with drafting so it wouldn't be a great big vibrant market with four operators and the
11:03like would probably be against caesars and draft kings you have to imagine they'd stick with those
11:06same operators uh but again it's in governor mills's desk or on at the desk i suppose uh and
11:12we're waiting to see if she signs it but indications point to a veto but again anything can happen
11:17all right pen could also not work pat and then what would we do
11:21that's true thought we just did emails those days all right anyway uh all right so i i felt like you know
11:29you know talking to you you know rhode island was a possibility of you know getting sports betting
11:34here and you know we were closing out the summer here maybe closing out the year with no states
11:39you know legalizing sports betting of course one is getting ready to launch here in december but
11:43rhode island any update there yeah so rhode island we we came into the the legislative session with a
11:50report from you know consultants saying the lottery should open up sports betting to more operators
11:55there is one sports book product in rhode island that is through the lottery partnered with igt
12:01and the thought is you know when there's one you know one sports book monopoly the product's not
12:07great the prices aren't great your offerings aren't great and yeah so there was a bill that started and
12:12it passed one of the chambers the chamber of origin and said you know what let's open up to between three
12:17and five more sports books and you know rhode island isn't a big state but you know all these sports
12:22book operators do want a little bit more market um so you have to imagine there was hope there that this
12:27would be a state that kind of opens up um and unfortunately for rhode island residents and
12:33betters uh it fell apart and died on on on the floor uh of the second chamber because they just
12:40didn't get to it they didn't get around to it now the igt uh contract as the monopoly provider for the
12:48lottery uh is up next year it has a very long contract with the lottery but the monopoly part of it
12:53is only through next year so we'll see you know i have to imagine another bill will come up to to say
12:58this or or maybe just the lottery opens up applications for more next year because that is
13:03what the uh house of representative speaker said was you know what this isn't needed because the the
13:08contract runs out next year but again you never know kind of how legalese is taken and what that
13:13means ultimately without legislative action so again we'll have to watch what happens in rhode island
13:18in the future and whether or not another bill is needed to open it up to more than just a monopoly
13:24uh sports book there in rhode island let's get to arizona here pat and and i i know that the lead
13:30here for this story in arizona is about more cease and desists for these peer-to-peer non-regulated
13:38sports betting quote quote uh operators here but i think what i've learned pat and and you'll educate
13:44me more is my gosh there are a lot of these operators i've never even heard of before i i'm
13:50just saying like i mean you throw some of these names out at me here and i know you're gonna do
13:54that here of of these cease and desists i didn't even know they existed in the first place sorry to
14:00say no and it's true i mean we've seen a lot of those and i think the biggest one is here right
14:05here in michigan where i am is the michigan gaming control board they've sent out i think more than
14:0950 season desist at this point and yeah you get down there in the 30s 40s 50s of those those
14:15operators and you're scratching your head how do these people find these that are using them
14:19and it's it is question but yeah the arizona department of gaming this is their second big
14:23wave of season desist they are pretty adamant about saying you know you can only use the legal
14:30uh on you know regulated online offerings which is just sports betting uh in arizona so that's that's
14:37what's interesting there so this is again their second wave it includes an event wagering sports
14:41book of the black market called rebet a peer-to-peer exchange called novig raffles which is the dallas
14:48safari club and phantom uh sweepstakes stake us you might have heard of that when they have an f1
14:53sponsorship and and you know they're pretty significant player in the that world and then
14:58offering bet multiple bet types better edge and high five and yeah it is again that arizona like
15:04michigan like new jersey like nevada like several of these major gambling states with very strict
15:11regulators are saying you know what no you can only bet on what we license what we regulate and you can
15:18use those don't use all these other ones because they don't offer protections we're not going to go
15:23after them if you complain things like that and this is also of note remember we talked about a few
15:28months ago arizona department of gambling gaming uh put out a psa about illegal online uh casinos that
15:36were just posing as official partners of real brick and mortar casinos which again they said wait we
15:43don't have legal online casino so don't use those um so again very interesting to see all these states
15:48take action against uh illegal and just kind of gray area uh gambling options all right and uh finally a
15:57quick update here on the sweepstakes uh operators in california still no legal sports betting there
16:04and we don't anticipate that happening in the future what about sweepstakes no and sweepstakes
16:08there is a bill uh which we have detailed uh over at legal sports before and on the show last week
16:13uh the not surprisingly a couple of these sweepstakes organizations have come out and said hey this is
16:19not cool you're gonna affect the mcdonald's monopoly and reader digest pools this is a weird way to go
16:25about it because it was just inserted into different existing legislation so we'll see what happens no
16:30movement major movement yet in the legislator but that's why i watch it that's why we come on here
16:35and keep your viewers and listeners updated check out legal sports report.com for that column about
16:42sweepstakes and or pat appreciate you coming on the show we'll catch up later in the week thanks for
16:46coming on newswire thanks as always craig talk to you soon
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