People who gamble regularly online are doing so just as often or more frequently during the coronavirus lockdown, despite the lack of sporting fixtures, according to the first significant survey of betting habits during the crisis.
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The fast-growing business of online video-game tournaments comes with a health warning for fans.
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If those words don’t roll off your tongue when you’re thinking of sports, it’s no surprise — they find their roots in Scandinavia. Pesapallo is a Finnish version of baseball while bandy traces its roots to Sweden and resembles what we think of as floor hockey.
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Surprisingly, the first-ever virtual NFL Draft has gotten off to a good start with no major technical malfunctions. Joining together hundreds of connections by tech neophytes was expected to bring a lot of glitches, but the football world was pleased (or disappointed) with the lack of mishaps. With Day 1 of the draft now in the books, football fans can start breaking down what might happen should the NFL season be able to launch this September as the league still anticipates.
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WWE CEO and XFL founder Vince McMahon has been hit with a lawsuit from former XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck who is claiming money is still owed to him following his alleged wrongful termination prior to the American Football league filing for bankruptcy in April.
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Nevada officials condemned comments Wednesday by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman after she called for casinos and other nonessential businesses to reopen and suggested the city could serve as a test case to measure the impact during the coronavirus pandemic
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A group of individuals is going after DraftKings and FanDuel in court for their daily fantasy sports (DFS) contests, arguing that customers who lost money participating in the competitions should be reimbursed. They assert that the two sports gambling companies were setting them up to lose, knowing that the less proficient players would never be able to compete with the professionals.
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If we are being honest, the 2020 NFL Draft truly begins with the Detroit Lions at the No. 3 overall pick. That’s because LSU quarterback Joe Burrow is a -10000 favorite to go first overall and Ohio State defensive end Chase Young -3000 to go second.
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COVID-19 has forced the postponement of the annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, with organizers saying Monday that the 51st annual tournament – the country’s single largest live poker event, originally scheduled to run from May 26 to July 15 – will instead take place sometime in the fall.
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This is an NFL Madden 20 story: Sports fans throughout the U.S. are finding new ways to gamble in the absence of competition due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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As millions of Americans begin receiving stimulus payments amid the coronavirus crisis, an antigambling group is pushing to suspend lottery betting.
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Every NFL Draft is about the quarterbacks. It’s the most important, high-profile position in all of sports. Even in the rare years where a signal-caller isn’t going to be the No. 1 overall pick in the draft, it’s still all about the quarterbacks.
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