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Sports Business Journal » Betting
1w ago
Canada’s sports integrity body is “pushing for stronger policies to prevent competitive manipulation and match-fixing at all levels of competition” in the wake of former Raptors C Jontay Porter getting banned for life from the NBA , according to John Chidley-Hill of the CP. The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport ..read more
Sports Business Journal » Betting
1w ago
A N.Y. lawmaker “wants to expand fantasy sports games and update rules to keep pace with fan preferences and changes in the market,” according to Carl Campanile of the N.Y. POST. The industry’s status in N.Y. was “complicated by years of legal battles on whether it constituted gambling or ..read more
Sports Business Journal » Betting
1w ago
The NHL Alumni Association is “suing the online gaming operator PointsBet Canada” for C$1.1M for “ending their sponsorship agreement in November 2023 after the Ontario government announced gambling companies could only use active or retired athletes to promote responsible gambling,” according to Rick Westhead of TSN.ca. In a lawsuit filed ..read more
Sports Business Journal » Betting
1w ago
Integrity Compliance 360 has emerged as the new combined brand for the merger between U.S. Integrity and Odds On Compliance . The two companies announced the start of their mergers in October, pairing U.S. Integrity’s monitoring tech with Odds On Compliance’s consulting firm focused on compliance. Before ..read more
Sports Business Journal » Betting
1w ago
Integrity Compliance 360 has emerged as the new combined brand for the merger between U.S. Integrity and Odds On Compliance. The two companies announced the start of their mergers in October , pairing U.S. Integrity’s monitoring tech with Odds On Compliance’s consulting firm focused on compliance ..read more
Sports Business Journal » Betting
1w ago
With all but seven states reporting, March is tracking 14% ahead of last year in states that also were open at that time in 2023. Those states that have reported are up 16% over February. Big gainers included Maryland (+39% vs. March 2023), Louisiana (+40%) and New Jersey (+30%). ..read more
Sports Business Journal » Betting
1w ago
They are largely unrelated, yet inevitably intertwined. An interpreter stole $16 million from Shohei Ohtani to cover gambling debts, initially creating suspicion that baseball’s biggest star was either betting or covering the losses of a close friend who’d gotten in over his head with a Southern California bookie ..read more
Sports Business Journal » Betting
1w ago
Microbetting analytics startup nVenue has hired veteran gaming executive Quinton Singleton to be its President and Chief Operating Officer. Singleton, who was already consulting for nVenue as its lead strategic advisor, now takes on an expanded role seeking to grow the business both in the US and ..read more
Sports Business Journal » Betting
3w ago
While working on a deep dive into responsible gambling practices earlier this year, I heard rumblings that several of the leading sportsbooks were in talks to form an industry group that would allow for information sharing that could help identify problem gambling behavior -- if they could find ..read more
Sports Business Journal » Betting
3w ago
As Masters play continues at Augusta National this week, yet another session of the Georgia legislature has wrapped up without any indication of momentum behind legalization in the state. What began a few years ago as a confusing, throw-it-all-in-the-pot mishmash of casino and horse track ..read more