Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Signed A Law Legalizing Sports Betting. He

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - If Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine might reverse time, he would not have actually signed the law that legislated sports wagering in his state.


With two Cleveland Guardians pitchers and an Ohio-born guard for the Miami Heat snared in different betting-related criminal probes, the second-term Republican states he now "absolutely" is sorry for unleashing this unchecked new industry on Ohioans with his 2021 signature.


"Look, we ´ ve always had gaming, we ´ re always going to have gaming," DeWine told The Associated Press recently. "But just the power of these business and the deep, deep, deep pockets they have to market and do whatever they can to get somebody to position that bet is truly various once you have legalization of them."


His comments reflect a reckoning that's unfolding throughout sports and politics as sports betting ends up being more deep-rooted throughout much of the U.S. The wave of legalization recently let loose an enormous market focused around wagering and, more recently, a wave of investigations and arrests connected to accusations of rigged video games. It's a vibrant that DeWine says he doesn't believe lawmakers completely anticipated.


"Ohio should not have done it," he stated.


DeWine just recently became a key gamer in the negotiations in between Big league Baseball and its authorized gaming operators that led to the topping of prop bets on private pitches at $200 and omitting them from parlays. The offer was announced earlier this month, a day after Guardians pitchers Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the request of bettors. Both have pleaded not guilty.


FILE - Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Brennaman, right, speaks to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, left, throughout "Marty Brennaman Day" prior to a baseball game in between the New York Mets and the Cincinnati Reds, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean, File)


"Gov. DeWine actually did a big service, I believe - to us, certainly, I can ´ t promote any of the other sports - in terms of kind of advancing the need to do something in this location," MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred informed press reporters recently.


And DeWine doesn't plan to stop there. Shortly after Ortiz and Clase were very first put on paid leave this summer season, he revealed he 'd be asking the commissioners and gamers' unions of all the major U.S. sports leagues to prohibit prop bets - sometimes called micro-betting - like those linked in the Guardians scandal. While that objective has not yet been attained - micro-betting is critical to business strategy in a market with over $11 billion in earnings in the U.S. this year - DeWine said limitations put in place for baseball are an excellent very first step.


"It needs to be holistic, it needs to be universal," he told the AP. "They ´ re simply playing with fire. I indicate, they are simply requesting for increasingly more trouble, their failure to address this."


DeWine's current beliefs mark a notable position shift after he vowed to - and after that did - sign a legalization law that was sweeping in scope. The legislation allowed adults 21 and older to put sports bets online, at casinos, at racinos and at stand-alone wagering kiosks in bars, restaurants and expert sports centers. Wagering was allowed under the expense on professional sports groups, motor sports, Olympic events, golf, tennis and even significant college sports, consisting of Ohio State football.


It was clear in the run-up to DeWine ´ s re-election in 2022 that the gaming industry was extremely thinking about what was taking place in the state.


An AP examination that year found that casino operators, slots makers, video gaming technology business, sports interests or their lobbyists contributed nearly $1 million in 2021 and 2022 to the nonprofit Republican Governors Association, which supported pro-DeWine committees through its campaign arm. Entities and people with ties to the industry also donated more than $22,000 directly to DeWine's campaign, according to project finance reports.


An evaluation of more recent project filings finds that market largesse has continued to stream to Ohio political leaders with sway over video gaming's future.


Lobbyists and a PAC with ties to Jack Casino, DraftKings, FanDuel, MGM, Gamewise, Acid Rock, Underdog, Rush Street or Caesars have actually contributed about $130,000 to Ohio state legislators in the past three years, records reveal - about a third of that directed to top House and Senate leaders. Then-Republican Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, who was positioning as DeWine's most likely gubernatorial follower, had gotten about $9,000 from industry-connected entities and individuals before being appointed to the U.S. Senate.


A minimum of one effective state lawmaker, Republican House Finance Chairman Brian Stewart, had sworn to introduce legislation securing prop bets prior to crackdown.


"I think that prop bets are a significant part of sports wagering in the state of Ohio," Stewart told cleveland.com in August. "It ´ s something that clearly a lot of Ohioans have actually taken part in and enjoy, and I put on ´ t believe there ´ s something that we should eliminate entirely."


Amid such pushback, DeWine and others now see voluntary buy-in from leagues, players' unions and sportsbooks as an exceptional method to pursuing betting limitations on a state-by-state basis, where the authority lies.


Matt Schuler, executive director of the Ohio Casino Control Commission, said the baseball offer DeWine assisted broker has shown it can be done.


"He ´ s utilizing the bully pulpit and he ´ s able to link with the ideal people in that way," Schuler stated of DeWine. "No one believed that everybody could get on the very same page, today they did since everyone recognizes the danger. The bets are small, but the danger is huge, and so, having actually observed gaming and controlled it for about 14 years, this is excellent."


DeWine said his concerns with sports gambling started almost as quickly as Ohio's law worked in 2023. Very rapidly, his office started receiving reports that gamblers were threatening members of the University of Dayton basketball group.


So he called NCAA President Charlie Baker, whom he understood from Baker's time as governor of Massachusetts, and learned that he shared DeWine's issue. He got Baker to write a letter requesting the removal of collegiate prop bets from the list of legal wagers that sportsbooks operating in Ohio could position, which enabled DeWine to usher the modification through the gambling establishment commission.


After the Guardians case emerged this summer season, DeWine approached Manfred with the same concept. They hadn't both been governors, but DeWine did have one cache going in: his family's veteran ownership of North Carolina's Asheville Tourists. DeWine said Manfred asked him to hold off on pushing unilateral action in Ohio, in hopes of getting the parties to agree to a brand-new national guideline.


"I would have preferred to have actually totally done away with the micro-prop bets, but this is the area that he had the ability to decide on with them, and I was pleased with that," DeWine said. "Therefore, I believe that ´ s development."


DeWine, who faces term limitations next year, said he would enjoy to sign a repeal of Ohio's sports wagering law at this point, but he's particular there's inadequate assistance for that at the Ohio Statehouse.


"There's not the votes for that. I can count," he stated. "I ´ m not constantly right, however I can basically guarantee you that they're not prepared to do this."


Instead, he'll continue to make his case in other methods.


DeWine, an avid baseball fan, particularly of his hometown Cincinnati Reds, said he thinks "these sports are having fun with dynamite here and the stability of the sports is at stake."


"So, you try to do what you can do, and you try and caution people, and try to do something about it like we did with college, and you try do something about it like what we ´ re finishing with baseball," he said. "But we ´ ve got to keep pressing these other sports to do it, too."


AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum added to this report.


FILE - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, right, waits to distribute reading certificates to kids before a Cleveland Guardians baseball game against the Minnesota Twins in Cleveland, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Phil Long, File)

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