The IIHF Suspends Seven Players In Belarus For “Game Fixing”

Hockey

Two hockey players from Russia and five from Belarus have been suspended until further notice after admitting to fixing a game in November. At the time the game was “fixed”, players were unhappy with the clubs not paying them and decided to throw the game … Read more

Revenue For Churchill Downs Falls 5% Due To Nationwide Closures

Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs Incorporated (CDI) has seen an overall 5% loss in the first quarter of 2020 when compared to 2019’s reports. CDI facilities across the country have been closed because of COVID-19 and Calder Casino, the horse racing track in Miami that was slated for … Read more

CA Tribes Granted Extension For Sports Betting Initiative Petition

Win-River Casino

The Indian tribes of California will be accepting signatures to get legal tribal sports betting on the 2022 ballot in the state after being granted an extension to do so. Tribes want a legal sports betting market in California as long as they are the … Read more

All Forms Of Gambling Under One Law In Norway Is Being Proposed

Norwegian Sports Betting

Norway is looking to put all of its gambling laws, including the one that has sports betting odds being offered, into one big law that embodies the entire industry. An opinion window will be open for three months for stakeholders in the gaming industry to … Read more

Trial Begins In Oklahoma Over Tribal Sports Betting

Oklahoma Tribal Gaming Compact

The validity of the new Comanche Nation and Otoe-Missouria Tribes gaming compacts that allow legal sports betting in Oklahoma got its first court appearance on Wednesday. Oklahoma maintains that Governor Kevin Stitt, who greenlit Tribal sportsbooks does not have the authority to do so making … Read more

Sports Betting Bills In GA Couldn’t Pass The 50 Yard Line This Year

Georgia Legislature Session Ends

Two bills that would make sports betting legal in Georgia did not pass in the 2020 session as they were not heard on the final day of hearings, June 26. A legal sports betting market in the Peach State shows estimates of $60 million a … Read more

Tammy Duckworth News Gets Her VP Betting Odds To Leap Rice, Demings

Senator Tammy Duckworth

Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth has now become a possible choice for Joe Biden’s VP (+1400). Other sites have locked the odds for Biden’s VP as Duckworth has been making headlines. Duckworth has varying odds but she has jumped to the number two spot under Kamala … Read more

New Regulator Named For France’s Gambling Industry

ANJ

The gambling market in France has chosen a new regulatory body for its entire industry with the creation of L’Autorité nationale des Jeux (ANJ). The ANJ will oversee betting operations in the country in an effort to combat problem gambling, underage gambling, and criminal gambling … Read more

LA State Legislature Passes DFS Tax Bill, Moves On To Governor

Louisiana Fantasy Betting

House Bill 64 would tax DFS contests in Louisiana at 8%. The measure passed through its final hurdle in the Louisiana State Legislature on Tuesday. The odds that Governor John Bel Edwards signs the bill are high, as he recently approved similar gambling bills. LA … Read more

Rush Street Interactive Makes Sports Betting Deal With MI Casino

Rush Street Gaming

Rush Street Interactive has partnered with Little River Casino in Michigan to be its official sportsbook operator. The retail sportsbook is slated to open by the Fall of 2020, just in time for the NFL season. Annual revenue estimates for the Michigan sports betting market … Read more

Tribes Play Their Cards Again, California Pulls Sports Betting Bill

California Legislature

California is $54 billion in debt due to the Coronavirus Pandemic and will sustain major budget cuts to ease some of that financial burden. SCA-6, a bill that would allow residents to vote on a legal sports betting market, was pulled by its sponsor, Senator … Read more