The board of PointsBet said Sunday night that it will continue to endorse a Fanatics bid while looking into a last-minute offer from DraftKings. The Australian business announced in a press release that it would work with DraftKings to accept its $195 million offer to buy the US assets of PointsBet. PointsBet's board still urges shareholders to accept the earlier ...
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The Super Bowl, the biggest annual sporting event in the United States, is not just a celebration of American football, but also an opportunity for fans to place bets on the outcome of the game. Sports betting has been a part of the Super Bowl experience for decades, and its history is intertwined with the evolution of the NFL and ...
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image from Forbes.com Its been in the works for some time. Caesars Entertainment has been looking to acquire the sports betting giants William Hill. In an article from yesterday, the story was that the $3.9B asking price was too rich for Caesars. Today we are here to tell you that it appears the deal will be finalized at the price ...
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers just keep getting better. And I am not just talking about in practice. This week they added star RB Leonard Fournette to the backfield. This addition goes with their tremendous offseason which saw the likes of Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski join the team. If Brady and Gronk had a few less years under their belt ...
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The NBA season is back in full swing and it looks like they are doing things the right way. The league is finishing their 2019-2020 season in a bubble located at Disney World in Orlando, FL. Covid has not yet threatened the league like it has MLB. The return of NBA action also means the return of NBA betting. That ...
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Las Vegas - Nevada Running a sportsbook is fraught with all types of challenges. Getting the right point spreads and odds can be the difference between making or losing a million dollars in a single day. But other seemingly mundane information must be entered into the database so that operations run smoothly. 8 Days ago, Bellagio in Las Vegas posted ...
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If you are sports fan in the United States you have probably heard of Barstool Sports. It is a powerful source of sports information started by a man named Dave Portnoy. Portnoy himself has earned fame for being very vocal on the sports scene and for his constant lambasting of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Sports betting company Penn National, which ...
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People from Illinois have been able to bet sports legally for three months. That hasn't meant anything however, because there have been virtually no sports to bet aside from a few UFC fights and a Nascar and Golf event or two. But now, just in perfect time, the state has its first mobile sportsbook operation up and running. Rivers Casino ...
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image credit NBA and Sacramento Kings. We do not own this image and it is being used for editorial purposes only. California was already a state that tired to tax itself into prominence only to realize that the wealthiest people were very good at avoiding taxes, or that they decided to leave the state altogether. The state is strapped for ...
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Two bills for sports betting recently failed in the Grand Canyon State. The first was centered on allowing sports betting at tribal locations but would've prohibited sports betting online. The second bill was seeking to also authorize legals sports betting at any one of 26 tribal locations but also addressed legalization of commercial sportsbooks. It too was not "mobile-friendly". Representative ...
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