Even as the White House is still slamming the National Football League for its stance on players protesting during the playing of the national anthem, there has been a meeting of minds between the league and the administration on at least one issue.
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) called out the “hypocrisy” of professional sports leagues like the NFL and NHL for blocking sports gambling while allowing the Oakland Raiders to move to Las Vegas and the NHL an expansion team in the Vegas
A former Michigan high school Spanish teacher is accused of embezzling more than $30,000 in school funds to try her luck at the casino.
I came away from this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo excited about a precious few upcoming titles. Foremost among them was Middle-earth: Shadow of War. I described the elegance with which the developers introduced complexity to 2014’s Shadow of Mordor’s alchemy of procedural generation and visceral combat. I said that I would be “shocked if it doesn’t immediately become one of the year’s highlights” upon its release, and I meant it.
The Las Vegas taxpayer subsidy to build a stadium for the National Football League Raiders works out to $354 per resident. The cost will be paid, according to projections, by increased tourist traffic that will drastically increase hotel occupancy and
Despite the recent move of the Raiders from California to gambling mecca Las Vegas, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has reaffirmed the league’s stance against gambling.
With the growing popularity of fantasy sports betting websites and the corresponding questions over their legality, a congressional committee looks to reconsider the wide bans on sports betting currently causing such confusion.
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon on Wednesday lashed out at the legal gambling industry and vowed that so long as he controlled the treasury, no casino would be built in Israel.
Popular gaming YouTubers ProSyndicate and TmarTn have been caught in a gambling scandal involving the video game Counterstrike: Global Offensive (CS:GO).
Despite spending a century crusading against gambling in sports, many of the nation’s major professional leagues are now cutting deals with the sports betting industry, a new report says.
A bill allowing daily fantasy sports betting websites to operate in California cleared the State Assembly on Wednesday, bucking a national trend.
The American Gambling Association estimates that Americans will wager $4.2 billion on the Super Bowl.
A BBC and Buzzfeed report over tennis fixing shook the sport only hours before the first grand slam in Australia kicked off Sunday night.
All-time hits leader Pete Rose held a press conference at his Las Vegas, NV restaurant to respond to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred denying his reinstatement to the league. In front of a large crowd, “Charlie Hustle” said he was
Charlie Hustle’s hustling worked wonders on the baseball field, but his hustling off the field wound up terminating his desperate quest for reinstatement by MLB, as Commissioner Rob Manfred denied Pete Rose’s petition for reinstatement on Monday.
The descendants of Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky are seeking compensation for a hotel casino in Cuba he built in the 1950s. Talks between the United States and Cuba regarding claims by Americans to property nationalized after the Cuban revolution opened
Desperate for revenue, several states are making a major push to regulate and tax so called “daily fantasy sports,” such as New York’s FanDuel and Boston’s DraftKings.
With accusations of “insider trading” still hanging over the fantasy sports betting industry, one of the two websites at the center of the scandal, DraftKings, has released the results of an internal investigation. The website now claims that one of the employees accused of insider trading did not use internal data to win over $350,000 on rival site, FanDuel.
Fantasy sports sites, on the heels of a betting scandal prompted by what detractors called “insider trading,” received a shutdown notice from the state of Nevada as regulators and lawmakers turn their attention to making new rules to cover the popular online venues.
Just days after daily fantasy sports sites FanDuel and DraftKings were charged of insider trading, TBS’s Conan O’Brien spoofed the two sites’ commercials on his nightly show “Conan.” The commercials, which are seen often on sports stations and during sporting events, portray testimonies from
Another court has upheld the federal prohibition on sports gambling in the state of New Jersey. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that sports betting in the Garden State would violate federal law.
After noting a decreased interest in slot machine gambling among young people, Las Vegas casinos plan to implement skill-based gambling with video games.
Five-time major winner and one of the PGA Tour’s most popular players, Phil Mickelson, has been linked to a multi-million dollar illegal gambling and offshore money laundering operation.
“We’ve survived PEDs,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia commented. “This game will never survive gambling. Will never.”
Despite Pete Rose’s protests that he never bet on baseball as a player, ESPN’s Outside the Lines acquired copies of documents suggesting that Rose did just that between March and July 1986, his last season on the field.
The NFL has told members of the Miami Dolphins that they are no longer allowed to participate in a poker tournament at a South Florida casino despite being part of it for the last three years.
During ESPN2’s airing of “Mike and Mike” on Monday, Mike Golic, co-host of the show, discussed NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s stance on sports gambling. Silver has recently said that he supports legalized sports betting outside of Nevada, making him the first
