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NORTHWEST East Oregonian A2 Saturday, February 1, 2020 Oregon Lottery expects big win for Scoreboard app Revenue from Scoreboard goes to PERS state fund By DONALD ORR Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — Players of Oregon Lottery’s online sports betting game Score- board will place their bets on the San Francisco 49ers or the Kansas City Chiefs this weekend as the two teams face off on Super Bowl Sunday. Scoreboard is a mobile app and desktop website that act as a sportsbook, allowing sports gamblers to wager bets on sports rang- ing from football to profes- sional darts. Oregon Lottery offi- cials say it’s hard to pre- dict exactly how much reve- nue the lottery will see over the weekend, but they’re expecting a significant num- ber of bets. “With the Super Bowl, it’s the first real big sporting event that’s happening [for Scoreboard] — we’re anx- ious to see exactly how the players interact with their wagering,” said Chuck Bau- mann, senior public affairs officer for Oregon Lottery. “We can only anticipate that it would certainly be AP Photo/David J. Phillip The Vince Lombardi Trophy is displayed before a news conference for Super Bowl 54 on Wednesday in Miami. Oregon Lottery officials are expecting their online sports betting game, Scoreboard, to receive a significant amount of bets on the game. one of the top betting games that we’ve had.” Baumann said Score- board’s top game so far was the NFC Playoff game between the Seattle Sea- hawks and the Philadelphia Eagles on Jan. 5, with over 16,000 bets made and nearly $450,000 wagered. “(There was) the allure of having the Seahawks being the Pacific Northwest team of choice, but you also have the San Francisco 49ers — there are quite a few 49ers fans up and down the West Coast,” he said. “We’re anticipating that there will be a lot of action, but exactly how much action, we just don’t know.” Oregon Lottery doesn’t expect any server issues for players during Sunday’s game. People can make wagers ahead of the Super Bowl, but users can also place bets in real time as the game progresses. Scoreboard was the first avenue for Oregonians to legally place bets on profes- sional sports after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized state-sponsored sports bet- ting in 2018. Over the course of three months, more than 22,000 users have registered to BRIEFLY Forecast for Pendleton Area TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY Windy; spotty afternoon showers Mostly cloudy and cooler 57° 30° 41° 24° TUESDAY Partly sunny and chilly WEDNESDAY Increasing clouds Windy with rain and drizzle PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 38° 20° 50° 46° 40° 34° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 58° 31° 45° 26° 43° 23° 54° 44° 42° 35° OREGON FORECAST ALMANAC Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Seattle Olympia 51/35 50/25 57/25 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 58/31 Lewiston 53/35 59/31 Astoria 52/35 Pullman Yakima 55/26 50/32 56/33 Portland Hermiston 54/35 The Dalles 58/31 Salem Corvallis 54/34 Yesterday Normals Records La Grande 49/27 PRECIPITATION John Day Eugene Bend 55/35 53/26 55/28 Ontario 48/36 Caldwell Burns 68° 38° 44° 29° 69° (1971) -27° (1950) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Albany 53/34 Trace 0.24" 1.28" 0.24" 1.53" 1.28" WINDS (in mph) 51/34 54/26 Trace 2.02" 1.38" 2.02" 2.07" 1.38" through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Pendleton 50/25 53/34 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date HERMISTON Enterprise 57/30 54/32 66° 49° 43° 28° 70° (1995) -15° (1950) PRECIPITATION Moses Lake 50/31 Aberdeen 50/24 48/25 Tacoma Yesterday Normals Records Spokane Wenatchee 51/35 Today Sun. Boardman WSW 15-25 Pendleton WSW 15-25 Medford 52/35 WSW 7-14 W 6-12 SUN AND MOON Klamath Falls 51/26 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020 Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today 7:17 a.m. 5:01 p.m. 11:00 a.m. none First Full Last New Feb 1 Feb 8 Feb 15 Feb 23 NATIONAL EXTREMES Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 86° in Santa Ana, Calif. Low -13° in Crested Butte, Colo. NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY New Idaho program could boost timber revenue on state lands BOISE, Idaho — Idaho’s state lands manager on Friday asked a legislative com- mittee to approve $500,000 for a pilot pro- gram that would allow specific types of timber to be separated and sold when har- vested from state land. Currently, all trees cut from a particular parcel are included in auctions. Breaking the sales into specific types of trees could result in more competition and higher bids, bringing more money for a par- ticular timber sale, officials said. The program would start with about 1% of state timber sales and potentially increase to about 10%. Only areas with a suitable mix of tree species would likely provide benefits from such sales. Washington and Montana have started similar programs with some success. “We want to test the water here and really explore this to see if we can run with this to generate that additional reve- nue,” Department of Lands Director Dustin Miller told lawmakers on a budget panel. The state has about 2.5 million acres of public land. About 90% of the money gen- erated from those state lands comes from timber sales, with most of the money going to public schools, or about $85 million last year. Miller also told lawmakers the agency has improved its methods for determining how much timber is on state land. He said it adds up to about 10 billion board feet. A board foot is 1 foot by 1 foot by 1 inch. Ideally, Miller said, the inventory should be reduced to less than 6 billion board feet. As a result, the agency is planning to ramp up timber harvest to 328 million board feet annually by 2024. The Lands Department, overall, is seek- ing a budget of about $65 million. Only about $6 million of that is from the gen- eral fund, while about $7 million is federal money. The budget committee will start setting budgets in several weeks. Washington Senate passes death penalty repeal bill OLYMPIA, Wash. — A measure that would repeal the state’s death penalty law has passed the Senate for the third time -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 30s snow 40s 50s ice 60s cold front E AST O REGONIAN — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES EZPay 52 weeks 26 weeks 13 weeks in three years, with supporters of the bill hoping that new leadership in the House means the Legislature will make perma- nent a 2018 state Supreme Court ruling that struck down capital punishment as arbitrary and racially biased. With a 28-18 vote Friday, the Senate approved the measure that would remove capital punishment as a sentencing option for aggravated murder and mandating instead a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole. The bill now heads to the House for con- sideration, where it has stalled in previous years. Gov. Jay Inslee has said he will sign it if it makes it to his desk. New Democratic House Speaker Laurie Jinkins has said she personally supports the bill, but the caucus has not yet discussed the measure. Before the 2018 ruling, execution was already rare in Washington, and a gover- nor-imposed moratorium has blocked its use since 2014. But the court’s decision elimi- nated it entirely, converting the sentences for the state’s eight death row inmates to life in prison without release. The court did not rule out the possibil- ity that the Legislature could come up with another manner of imposing death sen- tences that would be constitutional, which led to the recent attempts to change state law. There have been 78 inmates, all men, put to death in Washington state since 1904, with the most recent execution in the state in 2010. Democratic Sen. Reuven Carlyle of Seattle, the bill’s sponsor, said that atti- tudes of Americans on the death penalty have changed, and pointed to the number of states that have moved to abolish it. “Now that we have firm resolution from both the executive branch and the judiciary branch, it is time for the legislative branch that sets the laws of our state to make a final determination on this particular legisla- tion,” Carlyle said. Including Washington’s court ruling, the death penalty has been overturned or abolished in 21 states and the District of Columbia. An additional four states — California, Oregon, Colorado and Penn- sylvania — currently have moratoriums. Other states are currently considering measures, including Colorado, where the Senate on Friday approved a measure repealing the death penalty. — Associated Press CORRECTION: The Page A1 story “Sanctuary City,” published Thursday, January 30, misstated the location of Virginia’s armed protesters. Virginian gun rights activ- ists protested at the state Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s place bets and the aver- age amount for professional football games is about $23 per bet, with almost 700,000 bets made so far. While the app is still in its infancy, Scoreboard alone has amassed nearly $3 million for the state since its launch in mid-October, with over $45 million wagered so far. Revenue from Score- board will go toward the Employer Incentive Fund, a state fund that matches employer contributions to PERS, Oregon’s Public Employee Retirement Sys- tem. As of October, PERS was $27 billion in debt. “Just like with any lottery game, the addition of Score- board gives us an added opportunity to earn maxi- mum profit for the people of Oregon,” Baumann said. “Anytime that we’re able to add revenues to go to the beneficiaries for lottery dol- lars, that’s a good thing.” According to its web- site, more than $725 million from Oregon Lottery went toward state and local pro- grams in its 2018 financial year. The Oregon Lottery said a gaming activity report gauging the amount of bets and revenue for January and the Super Bowl will be released as soon as Monday. 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