The NFL season opened last weekend and the folks over at Bodog sportsbook couldn't be happier about the situation. Last weekend marked the opening of US professional footbal and American players, recently released into the wilds of regulated sports betting, came out in droves to wager on their favorite teams. According to a recent article…
Regulated sports betting would cause certain chaos for Massachusetts colleges and universities, according to a recently published letter from those same schools. The letter, which was published in the Harvard Crimson, is an impassioned plea to halt the spread of regulated sports betting because of the potential damage it could cause to student-athletes. It also,…
Will US sports betting markets ever embrace the concept of sports betting exchanges? If the news coming out of New Jersey is any indication, the answer to that question is a resounding, "NO!". According to a recent report on ThoroughBredDailyNews.com, Betfair is shuttering its New Jersey-based sports betting exchange due to a lack of interest…
The University of Colorado Buffaloes and PointsBet, a US-facing sportsbook, are entering into a once-unthinkable partnership. The entities recently announced that PointsBet would assume the mantle of the very first official partnership between a Division-I university and a sports betting operator. To say that this is a ground-breaking relationship is something of an understatement. After…
There's something about springtime that makes betting on the Kentucky Derby all the sweeter. That may be one of the reasons that overall betting on the 2020 Kentucky Derby was down a whopping 50 percent over wagers on the 2019 running of "the most exciting two minutes in sports." While the race, which was won…
DraftKings is upping its connections with professional sports as it signs on as the official sports betting partner of Wrigley Field. It's another sign of American professional sports leagues' complete capitulation to regulated sports betting. Under the terms of the deal, DraftKings is to take the mantle of "the official sports betting and daily fantasy…
Bodog sportsbook is one of the internet's oldest and most establishment bookmakers. They've weathered some pretty severe crises over the years but, like every gambling operator, they're doing everything they can to stay ahead of the chaos that is 2020. Fortunately, Bodog has the NBA and MLB, in their truncated forms, to help keep the…
It's hard to believe that there was a time when the idea of regulated sports betting in the United States seemed about as likely as reality-TV star becoming President, or the whole world shutting down to help mitigate an out-of-control virus, but here we are. Just two years after the Supreme Court put the decision…
Sports Illustrated, the magazine, is looking to make a move into sports betting, the industry in the very near future. According to a report on LegalSportsBetting.com, the storied magazine has its eyes on getting partnered up with an operator of one kind or another by the end of 2020. It's a move leverages one of…
BetMGM is adding to its rapidly expanding portfolio of name brand partnerships after inking a deal with NASCAR to become their authorized gaming partner. Under the terms of the deal, BetMGM will be emphasizing in-race wagering, and a variety of content. It's a big deal for the sport betting operator and puts it, pretty much,…
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