Both are controlled by London-based businessman Watche Manoukian. The owners of Parx Casino plan to offer sports betting through the suburban Philadelphia casino and horse-racing track and at an off-track betting parlor in Philadelphia called the South Philadelphia Turf Club. That timeframe would miss baseball’s World Series, but it could mean capturing the last weeks of fall’s college football and NFL seasons and practically all of the hockey, college basketball and NBA seasons. The casinos, however, have other requirements to meet that could take until November to open a sports book. HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s most aggressive gambling states, appears weeks away from becoming the sixth state with sports betting after regulators Wednesday awarded the state’s first sports betting licenses to two casinos. Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience.
