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The UNLV International Center for Gaming Regulation has launched a series of online boot camps focusing on sports betting and other regulatory matters. A patron at a Las Vegas casino sportsbook watches sporting events on television screens. UNLV is conducting a boot camp in July on the sports betting industry. (Image: Las Vegas Review-Journal) Joe …

Sports betting data provider Stats Perform is rumored to be for sale. It is the latest sign the market for information and technology used by leagues and sportsbooks remains robust. The Stats Perform office in India. The sports betting data provider is reportedly for sale. (Image: Twitter) Stats Perform is privately held and controlled by …

The Louisiana Legislature on Thursday approved the final bill needed for sports betting to take place in the state. Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) is expected to sign the measure.  A football with a New Orleans Saints logo is pictured near an end zone at a football field. Sports betting proponents hope wagering will be …

DraftKings (NASDAQ:DKNG) CEO Jason Robins would like his company to accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment. But state regulators aren’t allowing it. DraftKings CEO Jason Robins at a conference in 2016. He wants to take crypto as payment, but states aren’t allowing it. (Image: YouTube) Robins made the comments at an event sponsored by …

Some £3.5 million ($5 million) held in a Football Index “player-protection account” can now be redistributed to 280,000 former customers of the stricken soccer trading platform, London’s High Court has ruled. Football Index was a highly visible brand in UK soccer, sponsoring the jerseys of English Football League team Queens Park Rangers (pictured). (Image: Scottish …

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) has signed a bill setting tax rates for sports betting in the state. This puts Louisiana closer to being the only state in its immediate vicinity with mobile sports betting, possibly by football season. Saints fans cheer on the popular NFL football team based in New Orleans. Legislation to …

A gambler who took part in the 2004 killing of a Long Island bookies’ runner has finally admitted his culpability in the case, Newsday reports. Mark Orlando photographed in 2004, shortly after he helped murder bookies’ runner Bobby Calabrese. (Image: Newsday) Mark Orlando, then 33, lured Bobby Calabrese, 24, to a deserted industrial area in …

Detroit commercial casino revenue remains below pre-COVID-19 levels.  MotorCity Casino Hotel in downtown Detroit. The casino is one of three commercial gaming properties that combined last month to win $109.7 million. (Image: MotorCity) The three brick-and-mortar gaming floors won $109.7 million last month, $16.1 million less than what they did in May of 2019.  MGM …

Efforts to legalize single-game sports betting in Canada gained some momentum late last week, as a Canadian Senate Committee supported a bill set to do just that – and doing so without making any changes or additions. Canadian Sen. Marty Klyne speaks on a single-game sports betting bill during a Banking, Trade, and Commerce Committee …