1979 stories by Steve Bittenbender
Bad Beat Breakdown: Crazy Final Minute of Kentucky-Florida Game Kills the Under (VIDEO)
Welcome to Bad Beat Breakdown, where, when bad beats happen, we will take you inside to what caused what seemed like a near-lock to go horrifying wrong at the last second. For the first installment of Bad Beat Breakdown, we’ll head to...
Major League Baseball Partners with EquiLottery Games to Offer Quick-Draw Parlay-Style Game
EquiLottery Games CEO Brad Cummings believes the new lottery draw game his company has developed in partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB) will hit a home run. “Pretty cool, isn’t it? It’s certainly exceeded my expectation when we started this thing 10...
Andy Beshear, Kentucky Candidate for Governor, Reveals Plan for Casinos, Sports Betting Across State
Kentucky Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andy Beshear unveiled his plan Thursday to expand gaming and bring casinos, sports betting, fantasy sports, and potentially online poker into the Bluegrass State. Long known as a proponent of expanded gaming, Beshear used the grand opening of...
Pokagon Band Wants Class III Gaming Compact with Indiana for Expanding South Bend Casino
The Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi Indians broke ground earlier this week on an expansion project for the tribe’s Four Winds Casino South Bend. However, that’s not the only change the tribe wants to make. Indiana Gaming Commission Executive Director Sara Gonso...
Omaha Beach Returns to Headline Churchill Downs Record Breaking September Meet
Churchill Downs resumed racing on Friday, starting its three-week September meet, and the track’s scheduled races are set to offer an average purse of $76,275, a 63 percent increase from last year’s record amount. Just as Churchill was able to boost purses...
Paul Hornung, NFL Legend, Helps Horseshoe Southern Indiana Open Sportsbook
ELIZABETH, Ind. – Horseshoe Southern Indiana celebrated its entry into legalized sports betting Thursday, as more than a hundred people lined up in the riverboat casino to be among the first to make a wager. Officials at the casino, located just outside...
Justify Trainer Bob Baffert Denies NY Times Allegations of Doping 2018 Triple Crown Colt
A report by the New York Times late Wednesday rocked the horse racing world, when it stated 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify failed a drug test after the Santa Anita Derby that should have excluded the colt from the Kentucky Derby. On...
Milwaukee Brewers See World Series Odds Lengthen After Christian Yelich Suffers Season-Ending Knee Injury
The Milwaukee Brewers have been one of the hottest teams in baseball this month, as Major League Baseball’s pennant races heats up with less than three weeks remaining in the regular season. But the Brew Crew’s postseason hopes took a serious blow...
Boyd Gaming Sees Value in FanDuel Retail Sportsbooks, Customer Base
FLORENCE, Ind. – There’s a long corridor between the FanDuel sportsbook and the Belterra Casino Resort’s riverboat. But Peter Chu sees a corridor of opportunity at the Indiana venue. In the coming weeks, Belterra will bring six of its 42 table games...
US Sports Betting Exchange Needs to be in Multiple States, Smarkets VP Says Wire Act an Issue
When Smarkets announced late last week that it had secured its first deal with a US casino partner to launch a mobile sports betting application, it also just happened to raise a few eyebrows with a comment at the bottom of its...
