March Madness Selection Sunday is this weekend and the first round of the 2016 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship tips off a week from today on March 17. With no clear-cut favorite to win the tournament, excitement for this year’s Big Dance is exceptionally high. Daily fantasy sports (DFS) operators […]

Daily fantasy stock market contests are soon to be a real thing, and it doesn’t take a law degree in gambling or finance to know that the impending offering will cause much controversy. Like daily fantasy sports (DFS) provided by industry leaders DraftKings and FanDuel, daily fantasy stock market contests […]

Nevada sportsbooks hauled in $448.2 million in wagers during the month of January for a win of $19.63 million, the most ever bet during the month in the Silver State. The net income falls just short of last January’s $20.3 million record hold. “We are continuing to see the trend […]

The NFL Rush Fantasy website made no secret about its mission of marketing to children during the 2015-2016 football season. Open to US residents between the ages of six and 12 who have obtained parental consent, NFL Rush provides participants with the chance of winning “a great weekly prize of […]

The special FIFA presidential election to elect Sepp Blatter’s replacement and become the head of football’s governing world body will be held this Friday at the Hallenstadion auditorium in Zurich, Switzerland. 209 member nations will come together for the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in the organization’s desperate attempt to restore order […]

Manny Pacquiao didn’t put up much of a fight against Floyd Mayweather during the billed “Fight of the Century” as the welterweight lost by unanimous decision, but this week the Filipino suffered perhaps his most shocking and devastating knockout after he made anti-gay comments in his home country. During an […]

The New Jersey sports betting case goes back to court on Wednesday, but this time instead of three Third Circuit judges there will be 12, as is pursuant to the special “en banc” appeal hearing stipulations. Soon after voters favored a referendum to allow sports betting in 2011, the so-called […]

A Pennsylvania sports betting resolution passed through the state’s House Gaming Oversight Committee this week in nearly unanimous fashion, moving residents in the Keystone State closer to being permitted to legally bet on sporting events. Authored by State Rep. Nick Kotik (D-District 45), HR619 is a resolution that urges the […]

Super Bowl sports betting was legally confined to the books in Nevada and predominantly Las Vegas on Sunday, but that didn’t stop residents and tourists from placing a record $132.54 million on the big game between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers. That number sets a new milestone for total […]

The Rio Olympics are in their final six months of planning, but organizers are facing an inconspicuous threat that has the potential to keep both athletes and patrons from attending the Summer Games. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Zika virus a global emergency this week and stressed that […]

Neymar Jr. is one of the most famous athletes on the planet. With more than 21 million Twitter followers, he’s behind only LeBron James and fellow Brazilian soccer star Kaka in terms of social media fans. Predicted to eventually become the best competitor to ever play the game by fútbol […]

If you believe the Las Vegas odds, fifth-year NFL quarterback Cam Newton will lead his Carolina Panthers over future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos when the two meet on February 7 in Santa Clara, California, for Super Bowl 50. If you don’t believe the odds, well, it’s time […]

Suspicions of tennis match-fixing has long plagued the sport, but this week the BBC and BuzzFeed News are claiming they have obtained evidence to prove that corruption is widespread and rampant among the world’s fourth most popular sport. As OnlineGambling.com reported back in July, a 2007 match between Martin Vassallo […]

The St. Louis Rams relocated from Los Angeles to the Gateway to the West in 1995, won the Super Bowl in 1999, made the playoffs four of the next five years, then missed the postseason from 2005-2015. The rest is history, quite literally. Following a 30-2 vote among current NFL […]

DraftKings and FanDuel have obtained the much-needed lifeline they were seeking to remain existent in New York. On Monday, a panel of judges in the state’s Supreme Court Appellate Division ruled that the daily fantasy sports (DFS) operators will be allowed to continue offering contests to the general public as […]

The Clemson Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide will duel for the National Championship on January 11 in Glendale, Arizona. The top-ranked Tigers are a perfect 14-0 on the year and haven’t lost a game since November 15, 2014. They still aren’t favored to win the College Football Playoff (CFP) National […]