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PENN Entertainment announced Monday it has named Disney’s Aaron LaBerge as its Chief Technology Officer. LaBerge’s first day at PENN Ent…
DraftKings hired the first chief responsible gaming officer in its history, the sports betting operator announced Monday. Lori Kalani, who comes to…
bet365 is now available in 10 legal sports betting states where new bettors can choose between two introductory promos. The bet365 bonus code SHNEWS…
PrizePicks, the top daily fantasy sports site across the United States, has a high value welcome offer with the PrizePicks promo code HANDLE100. Thi…
The New York State Gaming Commission reported a mobile sports betting handle of $487 million for the week ending April 14, with the NCAA Tournament…
On Thursday, Sports Handle Associate Editor Mike Seely hosted a panel discussion organized by EPIC Global Solutions entitled “Safer Gambling I…
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario has banned all province sportsbooks from accepting wagers on World Boxing Association-sanctioned fights…
The NFL reinstated five players suspended for violations of the league's gambling policy, even as former Indianapolis Colts defensive back Isaia…
Readers in any Fanatics Sportsbook sports betting state can find the Fanatics promo where a $100 bet earns a $100 bonus each day over 10 days. This…
The Louisiana Gaming Control Board reported a hold of 10.8% for March while sportsbooks collected $37.7 million in gross revenue, marking the 14th t…
A push to legalize sports betting in Missouri surpassed a notable milestone this week. Winning for Missouri Education shared Wednesday that it has r…
DC Lottery and the Office of Lottery and Gaming reported a $15.8 million sports betting handle from all licensees in March, the last full month Gamb…
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported an $800.7 million sports betting handle for March, the fifth time in Keystone State history it reache…
The NBA issued a lifetime ban to former Toronto Raptors center Jontay Porter on Wednesday for violations of the league's gambling rules. An NBA…
The battle between DraftKings and Fanatics exploded into open court during a hearing Tuesday, where the judge heard about secret phone calls, the al…
The Michigan Gaming Control Board reported sports betting handle totaling $497.6 million for March as operators totaled $43.5 million in gross reven…
One day before ESPN BET went live in 17 states in November, UNLV announced that ESPN had donated $200,000 to the school's International Gaming I…
DraftKings furthered its state record for monthly sports betting handle in March as Massachusetts bettors placed $654.9 million worth of wagers, acc…
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement reported $1.33 billion in sports betting handle for March on Tuesday, the fourth-highest total in 70 m…
“March Madness” proved to be a huge gateway for betting in North Carolina, where the state lottery commission reported $659.3 million ha…
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission reported a combined $59.7 million in adjusted gross sports betting revenue for the months of January and Februa…
bet365 currently provides a choice of two introductory offers for users in 10 sports betting states with the use of bet365 bonus code SHNEWS. Any ne…
Less than a week after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver hinted that Toronto Raptors center Jontay Porter could face a lifetime ban from the league for p…
While making the NBA playoffs – or for some teams, the play-in tournament – is always better than the alternative, two squads that did t…
Forget Jontay Porter, forget Shohei Ohtani, and forget all the other sportsbook scandals. We almost had Chick-fil-A-gate on our hands Sunday afterno…
FanDuel officially took over for GambetDC as the primary sports betting app in Washington D.C. on Monday. The change comes after several years of di…
Scottie Scheffler took home the green jacket Sunday, winning his second Masters Tournament in three years. Scheffler became the first pre-tournament…
Some Delaware lawmakers are seeking to open up the state's online sports betting business. As it stands now, Delaware law allows for a single op…
The Indiana Gaming Commission reported $500.8 million in sports betting handle for March on Friday, marking just the fourth time in 55 months the Ho…
The New York State Gaming Commission reported $42.1 million in mobile sports betting revenue for the week ending April 7, and FanDuel accounted for…
We’re less than two weeks away from the NFL Draft, and things look calmer than Lake Michigan on a windless 70-degree spring day when it comes…
Shortly after federal prosecutors charged Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter Thursday with unlawfully transferring millions of dollars from the…
An analysis commissioned by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling claims that $4.3 billion worth of illegal and untaxed wagers were placed on the recentl…
Bally Bet plans to go live in Massachusetts by the end of June, the sports betting operator shared at Thursday's Massachusetts Gaming Commission…
Sameer Gupta walks into a bar, shaft in hand. Not just any bar, but T-Squared, a golf lounge located a few strokes from Grand Central Station. Gupta…
Tennessee’s Sports Wagering Council reported $472 million in sports betting handle for March, the third-highest total in Volunteer State histo…
Several weeks after bombshell gambling reports surfaced against Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter of Shohei Ohtani is reportedly in negotiation…
Maryland Lottery and Gaming reported $536.7 million in sports betting handle for March on Wednesday as FanDuel outperformed its mobile counterparts…
For Seattleites of a certain vintage, there’s never been a local athlete quite like Nate Robinson. State champ at Rainier Beach, two-sport stu…
When the Masters begins Thursday, there are significant stakes for the world's best players. Jon Rahm (+1100 at FanDuel), the defending champion…
The Illinois Gaming Board reported $1.07 billion in traditional sports betting handle for February, the sixth consecutive month it cleared the $1 bi…
Few bettors were happier than Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy on Monday night. The UConn Huskies dismantled the Purdue Boilermakers in the men&…
Golfers will make their way down Magnolia Lane this week and compete in one of the world's most prestigious tournaments. However, as fans flock…
Last week, an academic paper co-authored by Joshua Grubbs of the University of New Mexico and Shane Kraus of UNLV confirmed what many have suspected…
Wilt Chamberlain’s famous quote of “Nobody roots for Goliath” may especially ring true for sportsbooks heading into Monday night&#…
Call it the sports betting handle record that never was. Due to accounting rules marking the end of the fiscal calendar year, the Empire State misse…
FanDuel is “tentatively scheduled” to take over for GambetDC as the primary sports betting app in Washington D.C. on April 15, according…
All eyes in the sports world turned to Cleveland on Sunday afternoon, as millions watched South Carolina complete an undefeated season with a nation…
Iowa bettors look to have enjoyed a second straight Final Four run by Caitlin Clark and the Hawkeyes as sports betting handle in March jumped 17.1%…
Perhaps the most important game in WNBA sports betting history will be taking place on May 14 when the Indiana Fever (13-27 last year) visit the Con…
The New York State Gaming Commission reported $41.9 million in adjusted gross weekly sports betting revenue from its nine mobile operators for the w…
The Colorado Department of Revenue reported a sports betting handle of $537 million for the month of February this Thursday as Centennial State bett…
There's nothing wrong with the film Shakespeare In Love. It's good, maybe even really good. But is it historically good? And did it deserve…
Members of Alabama's House of Representatives were none too pleased about the Senate's changes to House Bills 151 and 152, which originally…
A third bill to legalize sports betting in Minnesota was filed Thursday by Sen. John Marty, and the legislation comes with a large tax rate and a he…
Fanatics Sportsbook announced Thursday it has secured market access in Arizona and began taking wagers on its sports betting app after entering a lo…
The Minnesota House Commerce and Policy Committee met Wednesday and held a roughly 35-minute discussion on HF 2000, which would legalize online spor…
Approximately two weeks have passed since a bombshell report surfaced on the connection between Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter and a Souther…
Betting on college player props will be suspended in Louisiana beginning on Aug. 1, the Louisiana Gaming Control Board announced Wednesday. The proh…
In the near-six years legal sports betting has been available beyond Nevada, there are few evolutions that have had a greater impact than parlays an…
Unless you're a sports bettor in North Carolina, where college basketball is king, the most common refrain you're likely to hear out of a st…
Mobile sports betting in Mississippi moved one step closer to happening Tuesday after a House Bill was passed by the Senate’s Gaming Committee…
Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are two of the country's most well-known college basketball players, and a national championship rematch between t…
When the Final Four tips off, NC State will have both its men's and women's teams participating in the event. The same is true for UConn, ma…
When New York Congressman Paul Tonko unveiled plans to introduce new legislation seeking federal regulation of the legal sports betting industry in…
The Ohio Casino Control Commission and Ohio Lottery reported a combined $67.7 million in adjusted gross sports betting revenue for February on Monda…
Circa Sports announced Monday it has begun taking mobile bets in Kentucky, the fifth state where the Las Vegas-based sportsbook has expanded its ope…
The Virginia Lottery reported $50 million in gross sports betting revenue for February on Monday, the third straight month operators reached that be…
At the end of 2023, Washington D.C. sports bettors had little reason to be excited about wagering in the District. Their mobile sports betting syste…
The New York State Gaming Commission reported a mobile sports betting handle of $539.6 million for the week ending March 24, the second-highest amou…
Add one more online sportsbook to New Jersey, and this one is a little bit different. Come Sunday at 3 p.m. ET, Prime Sportsbook will have its offic…
Efforts to legalize sports betting in Minnesota are gaining traction, according to multiple reports. reported that HF 2000 and SF 1949, bills to le…
An effort to legalize sports betting in Georgia officially failed Thursday, the final day of the state's legislative session. While there was pr…
Nearly two weeks after Temple came one game from qualifying for March Madness, the NCAA still appears far from resolving an investigation into suspi…
Being limited by America's online sportsbooks is a tale as old as … well, as old as the overturning of PASPA. It seems like everyone has a…
The Nevada Gaming Control Board reported $47.9 million in adjusted gross sports betting revenue for February on Thursday as Silver State sportsbooks…
A resolution to legalize sports betting in Georgia (Senate Resolution 579) and its enabling legislation (Senate Bill 386) passed through the state&#…
The NCAA men's and women's tournament Sweet 16 … the NBA regular season winding down with the playoffs on the horizon … Major Le…
FanDuel and most Illinois sportsbooks started 2024 the same way they ended 2023 — routing the public en route to a record revenue haul. The Il…
On Tuesday, April 2, at 3 p.m. ET, the B2B sportsbook provider Betsson, in partnership with GambleID and Sports Handle, will host a free webinar on…
Hopes of legalizing sports betting in Georgia in 2024 grew increasingly dim Wednesday. The Georgia House Higher Education Committee met Wednesday, d…
The all-time state tax revenue from sports betting recently surpassed $5 billion, reaching the benchmark in less than six years since the first wage…
North Carolina's first week of legal online sports betting featured significant wagering activity, according to the North Carolina State Lottery…
A bill filed in the New Jersey state legislature proposes to more than double the operator tax rate on internet sports betting revenue to 30%. State…
The NCAA is enhancing its push for a nationwide ban of college player prop betting, it announced Wednesday. The organization has already pushed some…
We've already reached silly season in the Jontay Porter investigation, that time when in-the-know sources tighten their lips and wild theories a…
North Carolinians love their college basketball teams, which makes this year's men's NCAA Tournament all the more enjoyable. Three teams fro…
The NBA is investigating Jontay Porter for sports betting irregularities related to his player props on Jan. 26 and March 20, according to an ESPN r…
An effort to legalize sports betting in Georgia (Senate Bill 386 and Senate Resolution 579) remains stagnant in the state's House of Representat…
For the first March Madness that Kentucky sportsbooks could offer lines on the most popular one-month event in sports, a preponderance of Wildcats&#…
South Dakota became the first state of the 2024 calendar year to have a monthly loss for commercial sports betting as the state’s gaming commi…
Live entertainment is a bit of a tightrope act. People are paid to be quick on their feet, to be engaging, to be able to say the right thing and…
Major League Baseball announced late Friday afternoon that it has launched an official investigation into the Shohei Ohtani interpreter sports betti…
New York mobile sports betting handle Friday surpassed $40 billion since launch after the state’s gaming commission reported $445.3 million wo…
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey appointed Jordan Maynard as interim chair of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Thursday following the announced…
Another day, another court filing in the ongoing case of DraftKings, Inc. v. Michael Hermalyn. This time, it was Hermalyn and his lawyers filing in…
DC Lottery reported a total sports betting handle just shy of $12 million for February, the second consecutive month wagering has been down by a dou…
West Flagler Associates (WFA) and Bonita-Fort Myers Corporation suffered another setback Thursday as they attempted to strike down the current agree…
On Wednesday, Shohei Ohtani sliced a 98 mile-per-hour fastball off the top of his bat, capping a four-run rally by the Los Angeles Dodgers with an R…
FanDuel’s commitment to sports betting in Washington D.C. grew Thursday. Sports & Social DC officially opened its new FanDuel sports betti…