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The Football Pools Sold for Nearly $130 Million to Sportingbet Founder
The Football Pools are being sold to private equity firm Burlywood Capital for £97.25 million ($129.4 million). The self-proclaimed oldest soccer sportsbetting house in the world, The Football Pools were first launched 93 years ago in 1923. The operation once claimed to...
Japanese Casino Bill Regains Momentum
Japan, the Sleeping Giant of casino gaming, is once again considering legalizing casinos, opening up a market that could be the second biggest in the world after Macau, according to analysts. Japan came very close to legalizing casinos in 2014, when it...
Arkansas Legislators Rally Against Casino Referendum
Arkansas’ push to legalize casinos faces opposition from a bipartisan group of 40 state lawmakers, many of whom spoke out against the proposal at a news conference this week. State residents are due to vote on the question of whether to legalize...
Pro-New Jersey Casino Expansion Ad Highlights “Financial Cost” of Referendum Vote
Supporters of New Jersey’s northern casino expansion proposal have launched a new TV ad campaign emphasizing the billions of dollars in potential revenue lost to the casino expansion of neighboring states. It highlights the resulting loss of funding for programs aimed at...
Russian Hackers Expose Medical Records of Simone Biles, Williams Sisters, in Effort to Start Doping Scandal
Russian hackers infiltrated the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) database this week and are now exposing what they found. The hackers publicized the medical records of several prominent US Olympic athletes, including gymnastics all-around gold medal winner Simone Biles and superstar tennis sisters...
Parisian Macau Casino Resort Opens Tonight
Sheldon Adelson’s lavish $2.7 billion casino resort on Macau’s Cotai Strip, the Parisian Macau, opens tonight, complete with 3,000 rooms, hundreds of shops, a theater, a water park and an obligatory half-sized Eiffel Tower replica. Around 500 journalists descended on the gambling...
Hell’s Angels-Operated and Mafia-Linked Online Sports Book Techie Fined $400,000
The tech guy for an online sports book operated by the Hell’s Angels and with links to the Canadian Mafia has been fined CA$400,000 by a Toronto court. Gordon Baird, 59, pled guilty to being the web administrator of Platinum Sports Book,...
NCAA Moves Seven Championships From North Carolina Over “Civil Rights Protections”
The NCAA is moving seven national championship events from North Carolina due to the state's law that mandates persons use public restroom facilities that correspond with the sex that's listed on their birth certificates. North Carolina's House Bill 2, commonly known as...
RAWA Supporters Chaffetz and Adelson Find Common Ground in Politics and Internet Security
Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz (R) and Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson (also definitely a Republican) have some connective tissue when it comes to their views on who they hope becomes the next US president. Each may be focused in slightly different...
Carl Icahn Files Closing Paperwork for Trump Taj Mahal
Carl Icahn wasn't joking about closing the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. Icahn will be chalking up the "investment" as a $100 million loss. Thousands of jobs will be lost and the livelihoods of many families will be thrust into...
