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News Abounds about Sports Betting and Statistical Analysis

The upcoming decision of the United States Supreme Court on the legality of sports betting in the US has everyone speculating about whether the Court will give the go ahead or not and many are already talking about how they will market sports betting to the American public. In many jurisdictions, sports betting will be allowed only at established casinos and will serve as a sort of casino bonus for …

Australia Bans Sports Betting Advertising During Sports Events

Online gaming continues to be in a bit of turmoil in the wake of the legalization or pending legalization of sports betting in many jurisdictions around the world. It is no longer enough to offer the best online casino games. Players have so many entertainment options that they demand more. Casinos, gambling outlets, and governments are meeting the demand. One way is through sports betting. Australia has announced that while it continues …

March Madness Begins for 68 Teams and Their Fans

With all the talk about the impending Supreme Court decision about sports betting, and with the imminent start of the annual NCAA college basketball tournament, fondly known as March Madness, it’s appropriate to explain the tournament and the sports betting opportunities it presents. Gambling opportunities are prevalent in the US from land based casinos to online casinos with hundreds of casino games, to racing, lotteries and many other ways Americans …

Story with no End: PASPA and Sports Betting

We are well aware that in the run-up to the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the constitutionality of PASPA, the law from 1992 that made sports betting illegal in all but four states, Delaware, Montana, Oregon, and Nevada, where it was already legal, we’ve been reading reports, predictions, and analyses ad infinitum. However, there are still a couple of areas that the court’s decision will impact, that you may not have read …

NBA Eyes Potential of Billions with Legalized Sports Betting

The gambling industry in the United States has come a long way from online slots at a few casinos to the specter or legal sports betting on both professional and amateur sports. Even professional leagues that were once opposed to sports betting on their games have begun to think in the opposite direction. Tide Began to Turn Only Four Years Ago It was only in 2014 that NBA Commissioner, Adam …

Pulling the Wool Over the World’s Collective Eyes

Much virtual ink was spilled writing about Usain Bolt’s rumored career change from track and field to football, or as the Americans call it: soccer. The greater part of analyses about the pending change was whether Usain Bolt, as great as he has been in running, could become an effective football player in one of the world’s top leagues at the ripe old age, for an athlete, of 31. After …

Can a Great Athlete in One Sport Become a Star in Another Sport at Age 31?

Usain Bolt is the most famous sprinter in Olympic history. He won eight gold medals and set numerous world records in doing so. But those medals pale in significance as he recently announced that he had signed to play football with a professional team. For Real or a Gimmick? At this point, we cannot say whether the club signed Bolt as a promotional gimmick or if he actually showed signs …

Breaking News Sends Shock Waves through Sports Betting Industry

DraftKings has long contended that it is not involved in sports gambling. Those denials have been thrown to the wind as DraftKings announced that it is establishing a sports gambling business. Jason Robins, CEO of DraftKings, says that the move is in anticipation of an American market in which sports betting is legal in all jurisdictions. Legalisms DraftKings has always relied on the semantic difference between games of skill and …

Legalization of Sports Betting in the United States

Gambling laws in the United States are complicated. The laws differ from state to state and even from one location in a state to another. The situation is even more complicated when it comes to sports betting which has been limited for over 20 years thanks to the PASPA Act. PASPA, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, was passed by Congress in 1992. It prohibits states, except for Nevada, from …

The NFL May Have Buried Itself

The big news out of the Supreme Court and New Jersey has overshadowed another major development in the world of sports betting. A large sports book, run out of a casino in Las Vegas, has announced that for three consecutive weeks in November, betting on college football surpassed betting on NFL games by up to $400,000 per week. This news item was buried amid all the talk leading up to …