Bill Simmons, the popular sports podcaster who has championed sports betting, is under review by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission after he admitted on a recent episode to using his daughter\u2019s boyfriend to place bets for him. <\/p>\n
The commission announced the review Tuesday, two days after Simmons said on an episode of his podcast that he\u2019d used a proxy on multiple occasions to log in to his account and make wagers in Massachusetts. <\/p>\n
Simmons, founder of The Ringer, is based in California, where sports betting is not legal. In Massachusetts, mobile and online betting is allowed. <\/p>\n
But proxy betting \u2014 having someone place bets on behalf of someone else \u2014 is illegal in Massachusetts and is not allowed by FanDuel, the sportsbook with which the wagers were issued. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Commission is aware of the comments made on the Bill Simmons Podcast and staff are currently reviewing the matter,\u201d an MGC spokesman said in a statement. <\/p>\n FanDuel is the exclusive sports betting partner of The Ringer. A spokesperson for the sportsbook told NBC News it reported the matter to the MGC and voided Simmons\u2019 bets.<\/p>\n On the podcast episode, Simmons said there were bets \u201cthat I really wanted to get in \u2014 the UCLA overs. But Houston, the market had not shifted appropriately yet. I can\u2019t have my daughter do it; my dad would have no idea how to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n But, Simmons said, he trusted his daughter\u2019s boyfriend and allowed him to log in to his FanDuel account. <\/p>\n \u201cI get the code to make sure it\u2019s me to my phone, I give him the code, he logs in. And I have all this money that I had from last year because I actually hit a bunch of futures last year. And he\u2019s putting in bets for me,\u201d Simmons said, adding that \u201cit was a real bonding moment for us.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA week later, I called him up, ran it back,\u201d Simmons continued. \u201cWe did some more.\u201d<\/p>\n In a new episode released Tuesday, Simmons said he was unaware that such bets could not be made. <\/p>\n \u201cI talked about how I got my daughter\u2019s boyfriend to place some bets for me in Massachusetts because I was in L.A. [I] did not know about the proxy rules,\u201d he said. \u201cYeah, there are some real rules with this stuff, and they\u2019ve ruled that not only are the bets going to be voided \u2014 and I learned my lesson.\u201d <\/p>\n Simmons said he thought proxy betting was allowed. \u201cThere you go, lesson learned,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Simmons, a former ESPN columnist and commentator, is one of the most popular podcasters in the country. \u201cThe Bill Simmons Podcast,\u201d as of Tuesday, ranked No. 22 overall and No. 2 in the sports category on Spotify. <\/p>\n Spotify acquired The Ringer \u2014 a sports and pop culture website and podcast network \u2014 in 2020 for more than $200 million, according to reports.<\/p>\n This post appeared first on https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bill Simmons, the popular sports podcaster who has championed sports betting, is under review by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitglyph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitglyph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitglyph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitglyph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitglyph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profitglyph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitglyph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitglyph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitglyph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitglyph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}