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Fantasy Sports casinos on the Las Vegas
Strip has a similar position
Continued from Page 17 on fantasy sports as it does
with all forms of gambling.
Daily fantasy sports and In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, photo, Devlin D’Zmura, a tending news manager at DraftKings, “It is not in the interests of
its defenders point to a a daily fantasy sports company, works on his laptop at the company’s offices in Boston. The daily consumers that established
2006 law, the Unlawful In- fantasy sports industry is eyeing a breakout season as NFL games begin. And its two dominant gaming companies, which
ternet Gambling Enforce- companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, are touting lucrative opening week prizes to try to draw more are fully licensed and regu-
ment Act, that carved out customers as more competitors pop up. lated, are the only market
a specific exemption for participants that cannot
“fantasy sports” well be- Associated Press engage in the business,”
fore the concept of daily he said.
games versus week-long to operate their own daily to that end, allows fan- ment Saturday affirming No one wants daily fantasy
or season-long were con- fantasy sports games two tasy sports companies to their belief that they don’t to be shut down akin to
templated. Before the rise years ago, but no one has process transactions. But offer “gambling.” prohibition or the likes of In-
of daily fantasy sports, the done it. Burnett said it doesn’t pre- “We are speaking with ternet poker several years
exception was mostly used “The exception doesn’t empt other laws. gaming industry represen- ago, said Daniel Wallach,
by top season-long fantasy necessarily get (fantasy “If a state says fantasy tatives to educate them on a gambling and sports at-
operators like Yahoo and sports companies) to where sports is illegal ... the fanta- the fantasy sports industry torney based in Florida.
CBS Sports. they say it does,” said A.G. sy companies cannot use as our products are games “This is something that ev-
“Thanks to fantasy sports Burnett, Nevada’s top (the act) as a get out of jail of skill; fundamentally sep- erybody partakes in,” said
being specifically exclud- gambling regulator, who card because it quite sim- arate from, and not com- Wallach, a sports betting
ed from laws affecting on- is working with the state’s ply doesn’t apply,” he said. petitive with casinos and panelist at the upcoming
line sports betting, FanDuel attorney general to weigh So far, there have been no gaming businesses,” the Global Gaming Expo con-
is not illegal in any way. the industry’s legality. prosecutions challenging statement said. vention in Las Vegas, the
Trust us, our lawyers drive The federal law applies to the sites’ abilities to legally John McManus, general top yearly casino industry
very nice cars so that we processing payments for operate. counsel for MGM Resorts In- conference. “It would not
can keep it that way,” Fan- online gambling to curb FanDuel and DraftKings ternational, said the com- be a popular thing to pros-
Duel says on its website as online sports betting and, responded in a joint state- pany that owns several ecute.”
its short answer for the fre- Traditional gambling com-
quently asked question, “Is panies, though, don’t want
FanDuel Legal?” to risk lucrative gambling
Fanduel’s long answer is licenses by dipping their
more complicated, noting toes in the fantasy pool,
it doesn’t operate in sev- Wallach said.
eral states where its legality The debate about “gam-
is not as clear. bling” versus “gaming”
Some regulators and le- often centers on chance
gal analysts have been versus skill.
skeptical of that reasoning “It’s more skill than luck,”
because of state laws gov- said Peter Schoenke,
erning gambling. That’s left chairman of the Fantasy
casinos on the sidelines, Sports Trade Association
wanting to get involved or and founder of Rotowire.
support fantasy sports but com, a fantasy sports news
unwilling to invest or risk bil- website. “You win by mak-
lions in revenues that come ing good decisions about
with highly-regulated casi- players. You have to do
no-resorts. New Jersey reg- a whole bunch of work to
ulators even gave the go- play the game, let alone
ahead to licensed casinos win.”q
WNBA Capsules
McCoughtry leads Dream 73-71 win over Mystics in finale
The Associated Press points in the first quarter high 22 points in the final cut (AP) — Connecticut’s make over 200 free throws
WASHINGTON (AP) — At- and trailed by 16 at one five minutes to help the Fe- Kelsey Bone scored a ca- in a season with 207.
lanta’s Angel McCoughtry point of the first half. A 15-6 ver beat New York. reer-high 31 points and the SHOCK 91, MERCURY 87
scored 24 points and the run got them even late the By the time this game had Sun ended their season with Tulsa rookie Brianna Kiesel
Dream concluded their third quarter, and they took reached halftime, Indiana a victory over Chicago. scored a career-best 28
season with a 73-71 victory the lead on a 3-point play had already secured the Camille Little added 15 points to help the Shock
over Washington on Sun- by McCoughtry with 4:09 third seed in the Eastern points to help the Sun end beat Phoenix in their fi-
day, making the Mystics left that started a 10-4 spurt. Conference when Wash- a four-game losing streak. nal regular-season home
the fourth seed in the play- The Dream milked the ington lost to Atlanta. The They trailed by five at half- game in Tulsa before the
offs. clock in the final minute Fever will open their playoff time, were tied after three franchise moves to Dallas
Washington will open the with a pair of offensive re- campaign in Chicago on quarters and outscored the next year.
playoffs in New York on Fri- bounds, with their five-point Thursday. Sky 20-9 in the final quarter. Tulsa’s fans will have at
day. lead cut to the final score Natalie Achonwa and Bri- Chicago’s Elena Delle Don- least one more chance to
Atlanta’s Carla Cortijo by a 3-pointer with two sec- ann January added 13 ne had four 3-pointers and watch the team play. The
scored 10 of her 13 points in onds left. points apiece for the Fever. finished with 28 points to Shock will play the Mer-
the second half. FEVER 81, LIBERTY 76 Erica Wheeler scored a ca- take the WNBA scoring title cury in a home playoff
Ivory Latta led Washington INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — In- reer-high 15 for the Liberty. at 23.4 points per game. game Saturday. This is the
with 14. diana’s Shavonte Zellous SUN 86, SKY 75 She also became the sixth franchise’s first postseason
Atlanta scored just seven scored 11 of her season- UNCASVILLE, Connecti- player in league history to berth. q
