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With the start of the 2019 NBA regular season less than a week away, now is a perfect time to take a look at the value-packed NBA odds to win the 2019-2020 NBA Championship. Needless to say, following arguably the most exciting offseason in NBA history, along with the dismantling of the perennially-powerful Golden State Warriors, the upcoming campaign looks like it will be…

So, just how many people are betting on sports in legal markets? We know how much money people are betting; it’s a lot of betting in states like New Jersey. But we don’t know much about how many people are betting. One company that is in a position to see and now that is GeoComply, which provides geolocation services for many legal online sportsbooks…

Early Monday morning, PropSwap unveiled a fresh new look powered by a four-year partnership with BetX. The old logo is gone, and so is the old website. The innovative resale marketplace for live betting slips, first launched in 2015, has garnered its fair share of attention over the last 18 months or so. This new venture with BetX underscores its effort to carve out…

Happy Monday, lads and ladies, and welcome back for another rundown of the week’s sports betting news. A busy week yields a thick summary. When last we spoke, Indiana and Oregon were both on the cusp of graduating from retail-only operations into mobile sports betting. “If everything goes to plan,” we wrote, “news of a successful mobile launch in Indiana should lead this recap…

Ohio appears to be giving into sports leagues on one request but standing strong on refusing to include an official league data mandate. The Ohio House Finance Committee approved Tuesday an amendment to H 194 that allows sports leagues to request that the Ohio Lottery Commission prohibit or restrict wagering on a particular type of sporting event or wager. In a second hearing Wednesday,…

As detailed by Legal Sports Report last week, the Department of Justice unsealed three indictments against a range of New York-based individuals including some alleged to be associated with the Colombo organized crime family. The indictments cover a wide range of charges, many of which are common to organized crime indictments, but the one against Benjamin Bifalco is rare. The indictment charges that Bifalco…

The US government is alleging that members of an organized crime family tried to fix a top-level college basketball game in 2018. Wiretaps on the Colombo organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra, according to the charges brought in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. From the US attorney’s office for the EDNY: The court-authorized wiretaps also captured the…

The New York Jets need a quarterback. Sam Darnold is probably out until sometime in October with mono. On Monday night against the Browns, short-term starter Trevor Siemian suffered a season-ending leg injury. Now the Jets are down to third-stringer Luke Falk. Less than a week ago he was on the practice squad. Less than a week from now he’ll have to start against…

A sportsbook will appear inside a professional sports venue for the first time in the United States, thanks to a new deal struck on Thursday. Here comes a sportsbook where pro sports teams play The company that owns Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., announced that it had partnered with William Hill to place a sportsbook inside the arena. The company, Monumental Sports, owns:…

DraftKings Sportsbook received last-minute approval Wednesday for a next-day launch of online sports betting in Indiana. DraftKings partnered with Penn National Gaming to run an online sportsbook under the license of Ameristar East Chicago. The authorization from the Indiana Gaming Commission means DraftKings and Ameristar will join Rush Street Interactive and French Lick Casino as the first operators to launch mobile betting in Indiana on Thursday. Sara…