UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson hit the UK horse racing industry with a bit of the old good news/bad news this week. On the good news side, the PM will allow the races to go on (sort of) as planned. But that news was combined with the gut-wrenching news that all proposals to have fans…
Should voters in Nebraska be able to determine whether or not the state expands gambling in 2022? That might seem like a no-brainer for anyone with a child's working knowledge of US politics, but for Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen, it wasn't quite so cut-and-dry. Sec. Evnen is scared of the will of the…
BetMGM added another impressive piece to its collection of official partners after inking a deal to be the official sports betting partner of the Las Vegas Raiders. It's a big win for the sportsbook as it battles fiercely for its share of the burgeoning US sports betting market. Under the terms of the deal, BetMGM…
FiveDimes is, unquestionably, one of the most well-known online sports betting brands that's ever existed. The Costa-Rica-based outfit has had a long, and sometimes tragic, run from practically the dawn of the internet. But FiveDimes has always had something of an outlaw reputation and thought of it operating in a regulated US sports betting market…
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 British horse racing industry took another big hit this week when health officials reinstated restrictions on how many in-person attendees can be at tracks for live racing. As it stands today, spectators are allowed at the tracks, but only six at a time. That number is now so small that the tracks might as…
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…
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