American bookmaker William Sean Creighton, who was best known for founding and operating the online sportsbook site 5Dimes, was found dead last week in Costa Rica, according to a report by ESPN. Creighton was 43
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New data suggests that outside of video poker, state gambling revenues are in a long-term funk. But money from new casinos is exactly what lawmakers are counting on.
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Iowa Racing and Gaming Administrator, Brian Ohorilko says the 14 casinos already offering sports betting netted around $2.1 million dollars in profit. “But a lot of that is due to the fact that Iowa reports sports wagering net receipts on a cash basis.
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The NFL was so petrified of being associated with gambling or sports betting that up until recently players were forbidden to go into casinos, and anything associated with Las Vegas was suspect.
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Iowans wagered $8.6 million on sporting events during the first 17 days of legal sports betting in the state, according to figures released by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission this past Friday.
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If you’re wondering whether we’re likely to see a World Series thrown again, as in the 1919 Black Sox scandal, the answer is it’s unlikely.
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The gambling show born on ESPNews, Daily Wager, has been promoted to ESPN2. It had its first NFL Sunday last weekend, though it was bumped back to airing on ESPNews, preempted by live F1 coverage.
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At Horseshoe Casino in Southern Indiana, Louisville native and former Green Bay Packers star Paul Hornung was set to place the ceremonial first wager, which is somewhat amusing when you consider Hornung's history with gambling.
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Ahead of the new NBA season next month, Sportradar’s Managing Director of Sports Partnerships David Lampitt shares his views on basketball and why it’s such an attractive betting proposition.
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Vegas Sports and Information Network’s (VSiN) Racers Odds, the Las Vegas-based network’s NASCAR-oriented wagering show, will now be shown directly on NASCAR.com, providing race fans with betting lines and head-to-head match ups ahead of each week’s race.
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In the past week, Fox Sports and theScore have each rolled out their own sports betting apps. Meanwhile, Barstool Sports has debuted a standalone site, Barstool Bets, that offers free-to-play contests with cash prizes in lieu of actual wagering, and Vox Media has launched a sports betting publication with DraftKings called DraftKings Nation.
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The Providence Journal reports a Superior Court judge sided with the state in ruling Monday that Republican activist Daniel Harrop lacked standing to sue because he wasn't personally harmed by the state legalizing sports betting without voter approval any more than any other resident.
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