My opinion, which won’t be popular around here, is that Carruthers and Ayre Are doing all of us a disservice. There’s no gray area about sportsbetting over the Internet in the US. It’s illegal, and always has been because of the Federal Wire Act. Wishing it wasn’t isn’t a viable strategy.
Now, if an online casino without a sportsbetting operation were similarly in the spotlight, I’d feel a lot better about it. Instead, we’ll likely see this all blow up in the spotlight, and you can rest assured that the media covering the high-profile trouble of Carruthers won’t make a distinction between sports betting and casino-style betting.
My two cents.