\n[Sports betting is] a little bit like marijuana. If you just leave the black market there, you don’t bring it out of the shadows,”<\/strong> Baker commented in June.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAfter months of legislative deadlock regarding regulatory specifics –most importantly whether betting on games involving in-state colleges would be allowed — Massachusetts lawmakers sent Baker a sports betting compromise in early August. The governor signed the statute a week later.<\/p>\n
In-person sports betting is expected to begin next month. Online operations are likely to commence in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) is set to become the next president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Baker and current NCAA President Mark Emmert are each soon departing their current jobs. Baker didn’t seek a third term as governor in Massachusetts, while Emmert earlier this year announced he would step down effective March […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":248201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,16],"tags":[84128,27,83858,80968],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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