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American Gaming Association Recommends Repealing Sports Betting Ban
The American Gaming Association (AGA) is recommending to Congress that it repeal the nearly quarter-century old federal ban on sports betting. The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) passed in 1992 prevented states from offering gambling lines on sports. Nevada, Oregon,...
Liberty Media Thinks Formula One Is Missing Out on Gambling Revenue
Formula One’s new owner, Liberty Media, believes that gambling is a largely untapped revenue stream that offers the sport huge potential. The US mass media company is in the process of purchasing a controlling stake in the global racing business that would...
Huma Abedin Almost-Ex Anthony Weiner Scandal Adds to Clinton Drama as Election Inches Closer
Just when it seemed like nothing worse could affect Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's decimated polling numbers, new scandals involving her top aide Huma Abedin's soon-to-be-ex-husband Anthony Weiner, and another surrounding her former IT technician Bryan Pagliano, threaten to further drive her numbers...
Prediction Markets and Betting Lines Go Crazy, as First US Presidential Debate Approaches
Betting lines and prediction markets are in full swing, as the two US presidential candidates get ready to square off against one another at Monday night's first debate. If you can think of a potential line for just about anything that might happen,...
Sands Bethlehem Reportedly Planning Substantial Casino Expansion
Sands Bethlehem is looking to expand its horizons. Pennsylvania's most profitable casino in terms of gross revenue is reportedly in the early stages of spending $40 million to build additional gaming and dining space at its northeastern Pennsylvania resort. Allentown's The Morning...
Caesars Bumps up Bankruptcy Offer by $1.6 Billion
Caesars’ controlling private equity backers, Apollo Global and TPG Capital Management, are ready to sweeten the pot by $1.6 billion, as they vie to win the backing of their junior creditors for a multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy plan. Caesars is seeking to reorganize $18...
Maryland Live Casino Purchases Nearby Hotel as Expansion Continues
Maryland Live isn't playing any games when it comes to preparing itself for the arrival of the $1.2 billion MGM National Harbor this fall. Located 14 miles southwest of downtown Baltimore, Maryland Live announced this week that it has purchased a nearby...
Las Vegas Stratosphere Shuts Down When Ticking Backpack Found
The Stratosphere in Las Vegas was evacuated on Wednesday, in response to the discovery of a suspicious ticking backpack in the casino. In the wake of recent pressure cooker homemade bombs being found in lower Manhattan in New York, as well as...
Antigua Rallies Non-aligned Countries in Online Gambling Battle with America
Gaston Browne, president of the tiny twin-island Caribbean nation Antigua and Barbuda, wants to take on the might of the US, and he wants the Developing World to join him. Speaking at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement of Nations, he called...
Sochi Gambling Zone Created to Offset Hosting 2014 Winter Olympics
A special Sochi gambling zone is being created by the Russian Federation to help the city offset the lingering debts incurred from hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed the executive order in late August, and Sochi will be...
