Opinion: A delay in rollout of sports betting could cost Tennessee
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David Pettiette
David Pettiette, a Rhodes College graduate and CPA, is a Memphis sports enthusiast with an interest in data analytics and regression analysis.
Tennessee passed legislation to allow legal sports betting in an online-only format in May of 2019, but has yet to roll out platforms to make sports betting available to the public. This is a head-scratcher considering the state has an easy slam dunk opportunity to recoup some of the year’s lost revenue with very little effort.
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