{"id":45351,"date":"2026-07-08T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/online-esports-betting-could-be-made-illegal-by-new-bill-in-ohio\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:56:40","slug":"online-esports-betting-could-be-made-illegal-by-new-bill-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/online-esports-betting-could-be-made-illegal-by-new-bill-in-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Online esports betting could be made illegal by new bill in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in Ohio are proposing a ban on online sports betting, including wagering on esports events. If the legislation passes, it would make the state the first to criminalize sports betting after a wave of legalization.\u00a0 Reps. Johnathan Newman and Beth Lear introduced the Save Ohio Sports Act&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/esports-betting-illegal-new-bill-ohio\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in Ohio are proposing a ban on online sports betting, including wagering on esports events. If the legislation passes, it would make the state the first to criminalize sports betting after a wave of legalization.\u00a0 Reps. Johnathan Newman and Beth Lear introduced the Save Ohio Sports Act&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}