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Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has reportedly declared for the NFL Supplementary Draft, defusing what was shaping up to be a potentially explosive confrontation between the Big 12, NCAA, and his new school.

The Big 12 has filed a lawsuit against Texas Tech and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the wake of a Texas judge allowing Red Raiders quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play this season despite the charges of gambling lodged against him.

One of the two most powerful conferences in college sports will meet to discuss boycotting Texas Tech – in all sports – after Monday’s controversial ruling in which a Lubbock judge granted Red Raider quarterback Brendan Sorsby an injunction against the NCAA, allowing him to play the 2026 college football season.

Some Big 12 officials are speaking out and saying they may refuse to play against Texas Tech after a court ruling for quarterback Brendan Sorsby

The NCAA denied Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby’s request for reinstatement for eligibility following his 35-day inpatient rehab.

Last week, lawyers representing Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby requested an expedited ruling from the NCAA regarding their client’s eligibility for the 2026 season. This week, his lawyers are saying, time’s up.

The former boss of the Texas Lottery Commission has been re-indicted in an alleged $95 million gambling scheme.

The University of Cincinnati knew about QB Brendan Sorsby’s gambling problem last summer and still allowed him to play the 2025 season, a new report claims.

Damon Jones, a longtime NBA vet and friend of LeBron James, entered a guilty plea in federal court on Tuesday for his role in the blockbuster federal gambling probe that rocked the NBA last year.

Texas Tech Red Raider QB Brendan Sorsby is under NCAA investigation for making thousands of bets using a gambling app.

Several convenience stores in San Francisco’s notorious Tenderloin district have been providing cover for illegal activity, city leaders announced Thursday. 

Pope Leo XIV on Monday delivered a fierce condemnation of gambling, denouncing the activity as a “scourge” that ruins families and must be combated.

Trump said he would “think about” working to end taxation on gambling winnings in comments made to the press on Air Force One.

The NABA is telling several teams to provide cell phone data as officials continue the investigation into player’s illegally gambling.

Fourteen people were charged on Thursday for their alleged role in a college sports betting ring with links to organized crime.

Emmanuel Clase, pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians, was arrested by the FBI on Thursday on charges related to an alleged gambling scheme to rig bets. 

The NCAA has announced the results of an investigation revealing that six college basketball players manipulated games.

A mobster connected with the Gambino crime family has been denied bail in relation to the NBA gambling case.

The world’s largest illegal sports gambling website has been shuttered after officials in Egypt raided the enterprise and made arrests.

Police have shut down a gambling arcade business operated by a crew of migrants in Cape Coral, Florida, and accused the group of preying on and exploiting elderly customers addicted to gambling.

South Africa is a developing country, but is being hit hard by a First World problem: sports betting addiction.

News rocked the baseball watching world on Thursday after it was learned that MLB had suspended and launched an investigation into Cleveland Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz, mere hours before he was scheduled to pitch.

Cleveland Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz has been placed on leave by Major League Baseball (MLB) as the league investigates the Dominican player in connection with gambling allegations.

Adrian Peterson’s competitiveness on the football field is well known. However, as one card player discovered, he’s also plenty competitive at the poker table.

The MLB has fired an umpire for violating sports gambling rules and for deleting messages pertinent to the league’s investigation.

Critics call gambling “the devil’s playground.” Losses to online gambling in the U.S. now look set to live down to that estimation by surpassing the $1 trillion mark in coming years at the expense of American bettors.

Prominent streamer “xQc,” known for high stakes gambling, has faced a significant setback after losing a staggering $700,000 bet on Kamala Harris in the 2024 United States Presidential elections. In a video clip from his stream, xQc can be seen cashing out multiple bets on Harris to win — giving up his wager in exchange for keeping a tiny percentage of the amount bet.

Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones has offered to come to the rescue of a 68-year-old cafeteria worker who is sitting in jail for stealing $1.5 million of chicken wings.

Governing Tories, in a piece of spectacularly bad timing, has lost its director of campaigning as a probe into insider betting widens. 

Two Ohio lawmakers are jumping into the fray to get famed Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

NBA All-Star Tyrese Haliburton decried the rise of legalized sports betting in the United States, lamenting how it has made fans harsh.

The former Jaguars employee who was convicted of stealing more than $22 million from the team has been hand six years in prison.

Super Bowl LVIII is already breaking records in the amount of money being laid on the line at sportsbooks all across the country.

Sports gambling giant FanDuel has denied a request from the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars to return the more than $20 million in funds.

An employee at a popular sports gambling site is no longer employed after it was determined he had cheated in a fantasy football contest on his company’s site.

With the Super Bowl scheduled to be played in Las Vegas this year, the NFL has released its new gambling restrictions and notably even bans players from playing slot machines in Sin City.