AGA Will Team Up With ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt To Discuss Sports Betting

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Sportscaster Scott Van Pelt brought sports gambling to the forefront of the midnight edition of ESPN’s SportsCenter. Now he’ll try to project the future of sports betting at this year’s Sports Betting Symposium of the Global Gaming Expo (G2E), set for Oct. 8-11. in Las Vegas.

Joining Van Pelt as a keynote speaker at this year’s symposium is American Gaming Association’s (AGA’s) Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Sara Slane. She and Van Pelt continue the wider conversation on sports betting in a talk called “The Future of Legalized, Regulated Sports Betting in the U.S.”

This interview will focus on the implications of sports betting on sports leagues, the media, and the gaming industry at large. Slane has been pushing for legalized sports betting and worked to overturn the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PAPSA) back in May.

Now, in the wake of that decision, states are beginning to legalize sports betting and create legislation to regulate that industry.

Slane said this in a statement provided by the AGA: “From the start, Scott Van Pelt was one of the first to give attention to the potential benefits of a legal, regulated sports betting market in the United States. Now that more jurisdictions across the country have begun offering sports betting, there could be no better time to hear his insight on the evolving state of play and the overarching benefits from this new sector of the American gaming industry.”

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