There are 3 article(s) tagged Tennessee Education Lottery Corp.:

• July 2020

  • Opinion: A delay in rollout of sports betting could cost Tennessee

    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.

    By David Pettiette July 17, 2020

• May 2020

  • Sports betting is coming to Memphis, in the right way at the right time

    And if the lottery board were less greedy, the state would actually make more money.

    By Michael Nelson May 25, 2020

• October 2019

  • Nelson: How badly will the state louse up sports betting?

    The Legislature made the decision — unique among all the states in the country — that sports betting will be an online-only activity. Tennesseans and tourists won’t need to go anywhere in particular to gamble. They’ll just need their phones.

    By Michael Nelson October 22, 2019