PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan laid out the newest steps he’s putting into place to prepare players for legalized gambling’s inevitable impact on professional golf during a players’ meeting Tuesday at the Honda Classic.
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Delaware’s legal sports betting market has reported a 91.1% month-on-month decline in revenue for January, with less player activity resulting in a decline in amounts wagered.
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Casino mogul Steve Wynn’s former company was fined a record $20 million by Nevada gambling regulators on Tuesday for failing to investigate claims of sexual misconduct made against him before he resigned a year ago.
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Suspicious betting patterns for the Best Director category at Sunday’s Academy Awards caused some New Jersey and internet sportsbook operators to believe there might’ve been advanced knowledge about who would win. It turned out to be much ado about nothing.
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MLB sent a letter to the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB), asking it to take spring training games out of the sports gambling lineup. It argued that players typically don’t “perform at maximum effort on every single play,” which could “carry heightened integrity risks.”
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Nine alleged bookmakers in an illegal multi-county sports gambling ring in southwestern Pennsylvania on Tuesday waived preliminary hearings before North Huntingdon District Judge Wayne Gongaware on charges of conducting illegal sports betting and numbers lotteries.
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The following is the NBA’s response to “How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games,” published by ESPN on Feb. 19, 2019:
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Ten months after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared a path for states to allow gambling on sporting events, a movement is underway to allow Arizonans to wager on their favorite teams. SB 1158, introduced Jan. 23 by Sen. Sonny Borrelli R-Lake Havasu City, would allow sports gambling in the state by giving Native American tribes exclusive rights.
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Casino operator Caesars Entertainment Corp said on Monday it had signed a multi-state agreement with U.S. fantasy sports company DraftKings, under which Caesars will offer DraftKings market access for its online gaming products.
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Teams and coaches still need to be convinced to share their injury information. Nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can legalize sports gambling, the NCAA seems to have quietly taken over the duty of closing what some consider a giant loophole in legitimizing the college games on which you wager.
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Action Network Inc., a digital startup looking to capitalize on the spread of legal sports betting, completed a funding round that attracted team owners from baseball, basketball and hockey, along with the former owners of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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Less than a year after the Supreme Court allowed states to legalize sports betting, legislators are turning their attention to a new threat: insider betting.
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