The XFL, the fledgling US professional football league owned by Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment, has struck a multi-year partnership with Genius Sports to protect against the threats of improper and illegal betting-related conduct.
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Welcome to the wild world of novelty betting, where leaks and nonsense rumors fuel a low-stakes, international market that produces more wild stories than massive scores. It's a world that, for the most part, state regulators require U.S. bookmakers to avoid.
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Entering a renewed partnership with The Madison Square Garden Company, the agreement gives the Boston headquartered firm brand integration across MSG assets, including digital platforms, in-game promotion and out-of-home signage.
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Australian sports betting operator PointsBet has signed a long-term wagering agreement with Michigan’s Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians that will enable the company to enter the state’s nascent digital gambling market.
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The brand-new sportsbooks at Iowa casinos put up big numbers in their first 3½ months of operation, fueled in part by Nebraskans crossing the border to place bets that are illegal in their home state. More than $152 million worth of bets were placed at the 19 state-regulated casinos across Iowa between Aug. 15 — the date legal sports betting commenced — through the end of November. In gambling parlance, that’s called the “handle.”
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The NFL’s Wild-Card Weekend kicks off Saturday with two games, both from the AFC. At 4:35 p.m. ET, the fifth-seeded Buffalo Bills visit the fourth-seeded and AFC South champion Houston Texans. It’s the first-ever postseason meeting between those franchises with the Texans as 3-point favorites. Buffalo has lost its past seven playoff games as an underdog.
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Caesars Sportsbook installed LSU as a 3-point favorite over Clemson late Saturday night, but the line grew quickly and eventually settled at LSU -5 at most sportsbooks.
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Here at TheLines, we looked back at the year that was with the biggest sports betting upsets of 2019.
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Hartley Henderson lists his top 10 gambling stories of the year. In the second of two parts, Hartley examines issues that affected gambling in both the U.S. and Canada and reveals his top gambling story of 2019.
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The NFL doesn’t schedule a prime-time game in Week 17 because it wants to put the most important, drama-filled matchup in that slot. Ideally, a game where it’s a winner-take-all for a playoff spot.
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With sports book operators hungering for new customers in a growing number of U.S. states, sports leagues looking for ways to bolster the value of their television broadcast rights and casinos looking for ways to build new relationships, sports publishers find themselves in position to significantly bolster their ad revenues over the next several years.
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