Bookie of the 12 months: Cubs plan sportsbook, kiosks at Wrigley

A sport that has a commissioner’s workplace solely due to a playing scandal that rocked the game 100 years in the past may quickly have sports activities betting home windows at a major-league ballpark within the very metropolis that scandal came about, in line with an ESPN report. With the latest passage of Illinois’ new sports activities betting legislation, the Cubs are among the many Chicago groups planning to open a sportsbook at places inside Wrigley Field and simply outdoors the ballpark, experiences ESPN, citing “multiple sources.” The choices being thought of internally by multiple Chicago staff, mentioned the report, embrace automated kiosks, betting home windows and in-stadium sportsbooks. Cubs officers declined to remark to ESPN