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Sports fans finally will be able to put together the team of their dreams from the fields of Iowa. The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission issued authorization Thursday for DraftKings to conduct daily fantasy sports contests in the state. “We are happy to confirm we have received our license to offer daily fantasy sports in Iowa after working collaboratively with the IRGC on this…

Major League Baseball‘s vision for what sports betting in Washington state might look like if a genie granted wishes played out earlier this month. The public meeting of the state of Washington’s gambling commission is a sign of hope for those in the Evergreen State. MLB’s presentation might not be the same though. Who was at the hearing? The meeting featured testimony from three…

Will Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks fly high this coming season as they continue their current rebuild, led by their sweet-shooting second-year point guard? Will Victor Oladipo make a successful return to lift the ‘dangerous’ Indiana Pacers to brand new heights? Last but not least, are Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors primed to take a huge step backwards after parting ways…

Will the Los Angeles Lakers or Los Angeles Clippers and their respective ‘dynamic duos’ live up to their respective billing as top favorites? Will the Milwaukee Bucks and league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo take two more steps to become league champs after coming up just short in last season’s Eastern Conference Finals? Last but not least, could the Toronto Raptors pull off the impossible to…

Now that the Golden State Warriors have been slightly dismantled with Kevin Durant gone and Klay Thompson to miss most of the season off an ACL injury, the title chase seems as wide open as it has in years. The 2019-20 NBA Betting action tips off Tuesday. Here’s a look at the two Opening Night games and NBA odds. Top NBA Betting Picks of…

For the past several decades, professional and amateur sports leagues in the United States have told Americans and policymakers that the biggest potential threat to the integrity of their competitions is sports betting. That rhetoric from the leagues has only ramped up in the past year and a half since the fall of the federal sports betting ban and the proliferation of legal gambling…

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…