Houston-area furniture chain owner Jim McIngvale, better known as “Mattress Mack,” lost nearly $12 million last year betting on the Astros to win the World Series,McIngvale kicked off a new year of sports betting by turning his attention to a new sport, according to The Action Network.
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Long-serving CBS sports radio talk show host Scott Ferrall has been signed up by SportsGrid to launch two new live video streaming programs. Titled Scott Ferrall: Coast to Coast and In-Game LIVE, both will be produced from the firm’s Meadowlands Studio from January 29.
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A week after sportsbook operators boasted about the biggest win of the season, the public struck back on Sunday in the AFC and NFC Championship games. Both favorites –Kansas City and San Francisco – covered the spread, and the over hit in both games. The public was on all of it.
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There's one former baseball player uniquely qualified to answer a question about cheating in baseball. That would be Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hit king who was banned indefinitely from baseball three decades...
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The UK gambling regulator this week banned gambling on credit cards, saying it aimed to stop people “gambling with money they don’t have.” The news was met, by financial markets at least, with a relative shrug. Gambling company share prices briefly dipped a percent or two before rebounding.
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As far as internet industries go, online gambling is one of the most experienced, having had a couple of decades now to figure out what works and what doesn’t.
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Spectacle Entertainment and Hard Rock International have made public their plans for the new Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana at an official groundbreaking ceremony held at the construction site, located at 5400 West 29th Avenue in Gary last week. Present were state and local officials, alongside executives from the two firms.
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The Astros cheating scandal hasn’t put much of a dent in Houston’s chances of capturing another World Series title in 2020, with sportsbooks keeping the 2019 American League champions near the top of their boards, even after the firings of manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow.However, many oddsmakers have taken the Astros off the board — for now — when it comes to their win total for the 2020 regular season, as they take time to evaluate how much the turmoil surrounding the cheating scandal will impact the team.
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Heading into the new decade, a handful of confident predictions focused on U.S. sports wagering defining a new version of “the Roaring Twenties”.
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At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a distinguished panel of sports gambling experts peered into a crystal ball during a session on the future of sports betting.
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The Houston Astros are still one of the favorites to win the 2020 World Series, just not the favorite. Houston's World Series odds are now sitting at 7/1 after Major League Baseball punished the franchise for electronically stealing signs in the 2017 season. Astros manager A.J. Hinch and GM Jeff Luhnow were suspended and then fired, but no players were penalized by the league.
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Sports betting is booming, so Penn National is looking at the sports publisher.
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