Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s most aggressive gambling states, appears about a week away from becoming the sixth state with sports betting after regulators recently awarded the state’s first sports betting licenses to two casinos.

The casinos, however, have other requirements to meet that could take until November to open a sports book. 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.

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