Interest in sports betting is high as a new NFL season kicks off Thursday night, but the regulators on the Gaming Commission spoke to eager bettors with one voice Thursday morning: You’re going to have to wait a while.
After years of discussion and jockeying on Beacon Hill, the Legislature passed a legal sports betting bill Aug. 1 and it is now up to the commission to write the rules and build the regulatory framework for a new form of legal gambling in Massachusetts. The commission has been working for months to prepare for the task and is now in the early stages of the complicated and technical process of getting legal betting off the ground here.
