14 pending final approval: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. 14, 2023, almost a full week before the big MNF Super Bowl rematch between the Eagles and the Chiefs. November 2: ESPN announces that ESPN BET will officially launch on Nov. 14 launch but will require PENN Entertainment to provide additional information next month, per Sports Handle's Jill Dorson. November 7: Massachusetts regulators announce that they 'won’t stand in the way” of ESPN BET's Nov.
November 8: Sports Handle's Eric Raskin highlights the biggest PR challenge ESPN faces when ESPN BET goes live next week. November 10: ESPN released its sports betting guidelines and announced that employees will not be able to bet on specific markets in order to uphold journalistic integrity.
