Sports Betting News
Iowa Joins List of States Demanding Legalized Sports GamblingIowa lawmakers advanced a bill proposing legal sports betting at state casinos, becoming the latest state to attack the federal sports gambling ban....
Delaware authorities announced they have decided to pursue the right to operate single-game sports betting and gambling to the US Supreme Court....
The federal law against sports betting is causing many states to complain as they look to expand gambling for revenue....
After reaching for the sky with a proposed sports betting program, Delaware's defeat in court leaves casinos and the state feuding over the remaining revenue....
NBA Commissioner David Stern said in an interview that legal sports betting would not increase danger to game results and could open new revenue streams....
Despite league efforts to shove the problem out of public sight, a new sports betting scandal arose with the banning of a former Sacramento Kings employee....
There is a bay shift occurring in the nature of sports betting, as players desert land sports books for online casinos....
Ralph Topping, the CEO of sports betting operator William Hill, took on a second job as chairman of soccer's Scottish Premier League....
The likely last chance for Delaware's full sports betting program to be able to legally proceed was denied as the US court of appeals responsible refused to rehear the case....
NASCAR fans would love to bet this week's race in Delaware, but the NFL spoiled the sports betting party for everyone....
A panel of judges from the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Delaware's sports betting program had to limit itself to accepting NFL parlay bets, but the state is asking the entire court to hear the case....
Another NBA owner is set to also own a casino, something awfully common for a league supposedly scared of the corrupting power of gambling and sports betting....
The authorities running soccer in the UK clearly have different beliefs about online casinos and legal sports betting than their US counterparts, as yet another club accepts a gambling sponsorship....
Operators of Delaware's three casinos are trying to make the best of a bad situation after a court ruling left the state's sports betting plan stripped of most of its options....
With NFL parlay betting the only sports betting available to it, Delaware is rushing to be ready to implement the system by Thursday's NFL season start....
Delaware continued to be beaten like a rug by the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which further refined its decision of last week to allow the state's sports betting lottery to only offer parlays of three or more teams, and only on NFL teams....
Following similar expressions in much of the national media coverage of the Delaware sports gambling debacle, the Los Angeles Times calls for legal sports betting across the US....
With single game sports betting ruled out, Delaware officials are frantically searching for new gambling that may fill the revenue hole in the state budget....
Delaware's crippled sports betting program will continue as a parlay gambling program as soon as a court's ruling against single-game betting can be examined....
An appellate court ruled that Delaware can't begin sports betting lottery until after a hearing on the games' legal status....
Delaware sports betting proponents are so absorbed over the NFL lawsuit that no one has addressed the real difficulty, drawing customers away from illegal bookmaking that offers credit and convenience advantages over the state program....
An appeals court granted the request of US sports associations suing Delaware by setting an expedited hearing for the case against the state's sports betting program....
Delaware attorneys say sports leagues pushing for expedited decisions to avoid having the intricate ties between gambling, organized crime, and sports publicly examined....
Organizers of the new United Football League pooh-poohed NFL claims that gambling is a threat to sports, and said they hope sports betting helps their league as much as it has the NFL....
Having lost a fight to get an injunction placed against Delaware sports betting, sports leagues led by the NFL asked an appeals court to rapidly reverse the decision, before it could be proven the correct one....
Participating in an office sports betting pool, such as a March Madness competition, could have drawn jail time in California until a new law was passed this week, relieving everyone but the NFL. ...
A famed and respected journalist suggests online gambling and sports betting might be the best way to prevent print newspapers from disappearing in the US....
Delaware wins the first battle in its showdown with the NFL over sports betting, as a judge rules against an injunction to prevent the lottery gambling program from starting while the case is being contested....
Delaware has been forced by an NFL lawsuit to hire expensive attorneys to defend its right to raise revenue with a sports betting program added to its lottery....
Even as the NFL leads a parade of sports league hysterically suing to stop Delaware from running sports betting on its lottery, NASCAR steps up to assert there is no problem....
A Delaware state Representative calls out the NFL, NCAA, and other sports leagues for pretending to care about integrity and morality in their dispute over sports betting with the state....
Online casino rules being drafted and legislated by the government of France have met with resistance from EC compliance observers and now draw complaints from gaming and sports betting operators....
A sampling of national experts on gambling and the law finds that the NFL lawsuit against Delaware's sports betting program doesn't have much ground on which to stand....
Two Senators upset with Delaware's legal use of its Congressional exemption from the national sports gambling ban have asked the Department of Justice to put the state under the microscope....
Wimbledon officials were notified by Betfair, an online casino operator, that sports betting on an obscure first-round tennis match met standards indicating potential corruption....
The NFL continues to show how stupid it thinks its fans are by denying there is much sports betting among NFL followers....
A lawsuit to give every state the right to legalize sports betting became much more likely to succeed as the governor of New Jersey threw his state's support behind the state Senator who filed....
Hallowed Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford said in a series of interviews that sports betting has been huge for decades, and the NFL should be glad some of that money will be diverted to taxes from mob accounts....
The Supreme Court of Delaware yesterday unanimously said the state was within its rights to institute its new sports betting lottery....
Present sports betting numbers in the US are certain to total well over $400 billion, but only one percent is legal and regulated, says a casino spokesman....
The insistence by NFL leaders that sports betting remain illegal fools no one, say gaming experts who assert gambling is the cause of NFL success....
Gambling on the Preakness Stakes will continue into the home stretch at M Resort Casino in Las Vegas, which carries in-running sports betting....
Governor Jack Markell's sports betting bill passed the Delaware Senate yesterday, despite lobbying from the NFL and NCAA....
While Barney Frank has introduced bills to allow US residents safe and regulated play at online casinos, sports betting will remain an uncontrolled black market product, neither regulated nor licensed, thanks to sports league lobbying....
A last-second change to help assuage worries about state casino revenue caused the Delaware House to reverse itself and pass a sports betting package....
The Delaware House of Representatives voted against legalizing sports betting in the state....
A study by the UK Gambling Commission found that online sports wagering has not caused an upswing of corruption or dishonest match results....
The NCAA said if Delaware institutes a sports gambling program, it will lose the right to host any playoff games under the organization's control....
A New Jersey legislator is prepared to sue the federal government to defeat a law forbidding the state from regulating sports betting....
After much speculation, Governor Markell officially announced he would introduce a bill to revive Delaware's sports gambling program....
