UK bookmaker William Hill is about to go someplace that not many bookmakers ever get to go, the inside of a major US sports arena. According to published reports, construction is already underway on a William Hill outlet inside the Capitol One Sports Arena in Washington D.C. The arena, which is home to the NBA's…
August 2019 turned out to be a good month for Nevada casinos as American football returned full bore and a good month for slots made a late summer resurgence. For the month, Nevada's combined gaming might showed a 4.3 percent boost over August 2018 while pulling in a cool $952.4 million in revenue. Leading the…
A Washington DC Superior Court Judge slammed the brakes on the District's recent decision to award a five-year, $215 million, no-bid contract to Intralot to provide sports betting and lottery services. The court imposed a two week pause on the company's dealings with the District as a the result of a lawsuit filed by Dylan…
New Jersey's once beleaguered gaming industry is unquestionably the hero of the decades-long effort to bring legalized sports betting to the United States. Their battle raged on for years and was, seemingly, ended entirely when the Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 back in 2018. But one battle on…
One year after he was reported missing and presumed kidnapped, the body of William Sean Creighton, better known as "5Dimes Tony" has been found in Costa Rica. Costa Rica's Judiciary Investigative Police (OIJ) confirmed the worst case scenario for the missing sports betting entrepreneur after positively identifying a body that was found in a cemetery…
For decades, the leaders of college and professional sports did everything they possibly could to prevent the rise of regulated sports betting in America. Now that they've lost that fight, thanks to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the professional sports leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL) along with the National Collegiate…
FanDuel, the fantasy sports company, is launching four new physical sportsbooks in two, key Midwestern US markets. The company, which is emerging as a major player in the emerging US sports betting market, is partnering with the Boyd Gaming Company of Paradise, Nevada on the outlets in Iowa and Indiana. The new sportsbooks are located…
For decades, the number one roadblock standing in front of regulated sports betting in the United States was the National Football League (NFL). This well-known collective of billionaires argued that legal wagering would destroy the integrity of the game and, ultimately, lead to the demise of their entire business model. NFL team owners were so…
Would most children know a gambling advertisement when they saw one? Are gambling operators doing enough to make certain that they're not knowingly, or unknowingly, marketing their products to underage players? When it comes to the world e-sports and e-sports wagering, the answer appears to be a hard no on both counts. That's the conclusion…
The debate over regulated sports betting, especially in the United States, has raged on for decades. During that time, some of the loudest voices in the argument came from professional sports leagues such as the NFL and MLB. Their main argument was that wagering on their sports would somehow impact the integrity of their respective…
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