There are a handful of ranked teams facing off around the nation in Week 5 of the college football season, but the clear marquee matchup is the ABC prime-time affair and likely Big Ten Game of the Year as No. 4 Ohio State visits No. 9 Penn State. The Buckeyes are 4-point favorites.
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The Buffalo Bills on Sunday pulled off the biggest NFL upset in 23 years -- and they did it in convincing fashion, routing the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings 27-6.
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Online gambling scammer Fred Khalilian has been booted from Monster Technology Group less than a year after selling the company his worthless gambling technology.
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In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Christi vs NCAA earlier this year, which overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, in essence opening the floodgates to legalized sports betting across the U.S. by placing the decision to allow sports betting in the hands of state legislatures, a congressional subcommittee is slated to hold a hearing on the issue this Thursday, with anti-online gambling groups given a seat at the table.
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Gambling in Florida is a perennial issue for politicians and the public. It will be on this fall’s ballot for voters in two forms. One proposed constitutional amendment would ban greyhound racing. The other question is much larger: should voters have the exclusive right to expand gambling?
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The gambling sector grew steadily in the US in 2017, as shown in the latest report from the American Gaming Association (AGA). It brought more than $261bn (£200bn) into the US economy during that year.
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Neural regions underlying risk-taking and regret may one day point toward treatments for compulsive betting
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The New Jersey Devils and Las Vegas Golden Knights both announced this week they have gone where no NHL team had before — signing lucrative sponsorship deals with companies that specialize in sports gambling. And that’s big news.
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The Mississippi Gaming Commission on Thursday released its official report for the first full month of sports betting, and the state took in $7.7 million in handle with gross taxable revenue of $644,489. The handle includes futures bets made, while the taxable revenue does not include futures bets, many of which are not yet decided.
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Upon further review, a New Jersey man will get his full $82,000 payout on a disputed $110 sports bet. And several other gamblers who made similar bets at wildly inflated odds will also be paid in full, FanDuel said Thursday.
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College football bettors don’t have to wait until Saturday in Week 4 to wager on games involving ranked teams as there’s a solid three-game Friday schedule featuring a pair of Top 25 programs.
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Problem gamblers, the services that attempt to help them, and opposition groups worried about any societal scourge that might result from expanded legal sports betting are concerned that their voices are being drowned out as more states open sportsbooks.
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