Top stories around our network this week
Just in case anyone interested in sports betting somehow forgot, this is the week of all weeks, the mother lode of all mothers, the time when devotees of the nation’s most popular sport (sorry, pickleball, keep trying, you’ll get there) return to putting their money where their mouth or heart or brain is and bet on NFL football. The season kicked off Thursday night with a Buffalo Bills romp over the defending champion Los Angeles Rams, which no doubt made a heavy volume of New York bettors happy.
That game and the full slate scheduled on Sunday represent just the start of a season that the American Gaming Association projects will attract bets from 46.6 million Americans, as there are now more places and ways to do it legally than ever before. That includes wagering in Kansas with its first first legal sportsbooks, as well as betting right outside the Cardinals’ stadium in Arizona, although some issues still need to be determined regarding how stadium sportsbooks will operate on game days.
Our writers and sites show the same heightened interest in sports betting during NFL season as do the general public and sportsbook operators, but we also cover much more, as this past week’s content demonstrates.