Sports Betting

The Cosmopolitan casino will be changing hands again (Image: The Cosmopolitan)

Merger Roundup: MGM Buys Cosmopolitan, Endeavor Grabs OpenBet

It was another busy week in gambling mergers. MGM Resorts will pay $1.63 billion to operate The Cosmopolitan. Meanwhile, Endeavor will buy sports betting platform OpenBet from Scientific Games for $1.2 billion. While most of the mergers in the gambling industry involve sports betting, there are still a handful of […]

A dejected New England Patriots running back James White is carted off the field at Foxboro after a hip injury against the New Orleans Saints. (Image: Getty)

New England Patriots Lose Captain James White (Hip) Indefinitely

The New Orleans Saints defeated the New England Patriots on Sunday, but the Pats might have suffered a bigger loss when running back and team captain James White was carted off the field with a career-threatening hip injury. In the second quarter, White suffered a hip subluxation injury after New […]

Sezer Ozturk wearing the Fenerbahce shirt in a Turkish Cup Game in 2012. (Image: dailysabah.com)

Former Star Sezer Ozturk Involved in Fatal Shooting Incident

Sezer Ozturk, a former Bayer Leverkusen, Fenerbahce, and Besiktas player, was reportedly involved in a shooting with fatal consequences. One person was killed, while four others were injured in the incident, which took place on Sept. 19. According to Turkish channel NTV Spor, witnesses at the scene claim Ozturk’s reaction […]

Opening Day for Santa Anita Park's 16-day Autumn Meet brings four stakes races and plenty of ways to wager on them. The California track unveiled its wagering menu. (Image: Santa Anita Park)

Santa Anita Park’s Hot Take: Low Takeout for Win-Place-Show Bettors

Santa Anita Park unveiled the wagering menu for its 16-day Autumn Meet opening on Friday, with one of the biggest features being the lowest takeout on win-place-show bets among any major American racetrack. The suburban Los Angeles track’s takeout on the most common wager in North American racing is 15.4%. […]

Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Juventus are the last three clubs that refused to quit the Super League project. (Image: skysports.com)

UEFA Drops Legal Action Against the Last Three Super League Clubs

Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Juventus, the three clubs still involved in the Super League project, won’t face further legal action from UEFA. The other nine clubs involved were initially ordered to pay fines after accepting guilt. UEFA abandoned those plans as well, for the time being. Proceedings directed against Real, […]

Clemson may have sunk its national championship hopes on Saturday when it lost to NC State in overtime. (Image: Ken Ruinard/Greenville News)

Clemson Ranking, National Title Odds Plummet After Loss to NC State

When Clemson lost to Georgia in its opening game of the season, there was disappointment for the Tigers, but no real panic. That changed on Saturday when NC State upset Clemson 27-21 in overtime to all but sink the Tigers’ chances of winning a national championship. Clemson (2-2) fell to […]

Cornerback CJ Henderson roams the secondary for the Jacksonville Jaguars last season. (Image: Getty)

Cat Swap: Jaguars Trade CB CJ Henderson to Panthers

CJ Henderson is one of the happiest players in the NFL right now after the Carolina Panthers acquired the second-year cornerback and former first-round pick in a trade with the Jacksonville Jaguars on Monday morning. The Panthers will send tight end Dan Arnold and a third-round pick in the 2022 […]

Samson Ebukam from the Los Angeles Rams sacks Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Bucs in Week 3 at SoFi Stadium in LA. (Image: Jason Behnken/AP)

NFL Week 4 Opening Lines: Pats +6 Home Dog vs Brady and Bucs

Oddsmakers posted opening betting lines for Week 4 of the NFL season, which is anchored by a Sunday Night Football battle between the defending champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New England Patriots. The game marks the first time quarterback Tom Brady returns to Foxboro to take on his former […]

Warrant, seen here splashing home in May's Texas Derby. Sunday, he added the Oklahoma Derby to his resume, coming home by 1 1/4 lengths. (Image: Dustin Orono Photography)

Cox Issues a Warrant for His Third Consecutive Oklahoma Derby Victory

Brad Cox became the first trainer to win three consecutive Oklahoma Derbies, sending out Warrant to a 1 ¾-length victory in Remington Park’s flagship race on Sunday. Not only did Cox set a new bar for Oklahoma Derby conditioners, he tied Oklahoma training mainstay Donnie Von Hemel for the most […]

Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. celebrates his victory with 108/1 Hollywood Talent in Saturday's Grade 3 Parx Turf Monster Stakes. (Image: Joe Labozzetta/EQUI-PHOTO)

Give 108/1 Hollywood Talent the Oscar for Biggest Upset of the Weekend

Hollywood Talent and his 108/1 odds pulled off an Oscar-winning performance for bettors on Saturday, capturing the Grade 3 Turf Monster Stakes at Parx Racing for his first graded-stakes victory. Hollywood Talent waited a long time for his first graded-stakes score, which came in his 52nd career race. The 10-year-old […]