Fantasy Sports Giant DraftKings Will Delay Launch in U.K.
- Start date once planned for this quarter now pushed into 2016
- Several U.S. states have moved to outlaw daily fantasy
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DraftKings Inc., one of the two biggest daily fantasy sports sites, will not be introduced in the U.K. this month as planned. Its international debut has been pushed to "early next year," spokeswoman Pippa Hancock said in an e-mail.
DraftKings and its main rival, FanDuel Inc., have come under fire in the last several months. Lawmakers in a number of states have raised questions over the legality of their daily fantasy sports, which some see as a form of sports betting. The two companies are currently battling an order by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that declared them to be gambling and therefore illegal in the industry’s most lucrative state.