barstool sports and penn national gaming

The move comes nearly eight months after Penn National Gaming completed a $2.1 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of theScore. border, with the ultimate goal of migrating Barstool Sportsbook onto the company’s in-house risk and trading platform in the relatively near future. With the closure, theScore will shift focus to accelerating its growth in Ontario and expanding its technology roadmap north of the U.S. sports betting operations effective July 1. Here’s more on that from Matt Rybaltowski at SportsHandle:įlourishing in its home nation since the debut of the Ontario iGaming market in April, theScore alerted customers on Wednesday that it will discontinue its U.S.

betting operations as of July 1 and pointing customers there towards Barstool Sportsbook while shifting their own focus to Canada. There’s now some more detail on how that will look going forward, with theScore announcing Wednesday that they’ll discontinue their U.S. Penn National already owned a majority stake in Barstool Sports thanks to a 2020 deal, and they described theScore as “a powerful complement to the reach of Barstool Sports” in their release announcing last year’s deal. Last August, gaming company Penn National announced the acquisition of Score Media and Gaming, the parent company of sports media website/app theScore and their theScore Bet betting operation.

Barstool sports and penn national gaming