Welcome back to the World Series of Politics! This week Brandt Iden and Brendan Bussmann guide you through the early weeks of the NFL's $35bn season and Washington D.C. sports betting finally getting competitive.

If that's not enough we've also got Missouri sports betting confirming its place on the ballot and some rumblings about Arkansas igaming. Arkansas sports betting - limited to one casino and two racinos - hasn't quite hit the numbers so will replicating that model work for online casino?