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It feels like we’ve said this at least a half a dozen times this year, but this time we really mean it. This last week was — without question — the busiest week of sports betting news since the US Supreme Court repealed PASPA in May. There have been plenty of busy weeks over the […]

#6 Ohio State and #9 Washington meet on January 1 in the 2019 Rose Bowl.  Urban Meyer will be coaching his final game for the Buckeyes. Washington is appearing in the Rose Bowl for the first time since 2001. For all of the games that switch dates, times, and presenting sponsors each year, there is […]

Partnerships between professional sports leagues and sports betting operators are becoming more common in a post-PASPA world. Today, the National Basketball Association announced another major deal, this time with FanDuel. The expanded multiyear deal makes the daily fantasy sports turned sports betting operator an “authorized gaming operator of the NBA,” in addition to continuing as the […]

Just last week, the news surfaced that the NFL was looking for a national casino partner. Now, it appears close to finding one. A source familiar with negotiations tells Legal Sports Report that the NFL and Caesars Entertainment Corporation are getting close to inking such a deal. The terms and scope of the deal under […]

The PlayStation Fiesta Bowl pits #11 LSU vs #8 Central Florida. The Knights haven’t lost since 2016 but now face one of the toughest defenses in the country. What are the odds UCF continues its unbeaten streak minus starting QB McKenzie Milton? The 2019 Fiesta Bowl (1:00 PM ET, Jan. 1st, Glendale, AZ) between the […]

On Tuesday afternoon, lawmakers in the District of Columbia passed a bill that legalizes sports betting within its boundaries. The Sports Wagering Lottery Amendment Act of 2018 rewrites the DC books to permit both retail and online/mobile sports gambling. The DC sports betting bill is subject to Congressional review, but an emergency measure also passed separately to […]

#15 Texas faces #5 Georgia on January 1 in New Orleans. The Longhorns are in their first major bowl since 2009. UGA was the first school left out of the four-team College Football Playoff. After Georgia gave Alabama a heavyweight fight in the SEC Championship Game, many argued that they should be among the team’s […]

Floyd Mayweather is entering the ring once again for another payday This time he faces 20-year-old kickboxing prodigy Tenshin Nasukawa in an exhibition boxing match It’s easy money for Mayweather, and it could mean easy money for bettors as well They don’t call him Money Mayweather for nothing. The biggest pay-per-view star in history has finagled […]

Nearly all of the gambling bill passed in the final hours of the Michigan lame-duck legislative session deals with casinos and internet gaming. A single line tucked into the internet gaming section of House Bill 4926, though, is of particular interest to sports bettors. Could this be the sentence that legalizes Michigan Bovada sports betting? […]

Shockwaves reverberated through the gaming industry on Wednesday with the revelation that the online gaming business in the US could be turned on its head by the Department of Justice. Or it won’t be turned on its head at all. An opinion from the DOJ appears to be coming — as first reported at Online Poker Report — […]