Marcus Williams 
Week 0 of the 2023 NCAA Football season is upon us, delivering seven games of collegiate action this Saturday. Online college football betting sites are geared up for this weekend with game lines for each contest. Kicking off the season is Notre Dame vs. Navy, which is being played at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. … Read more
The Esports Awards is a ceremony that has honored greatness in the spectrum of competitive online gaming and streaming since 2016. 35 Esports Awards are given out in total, with honors superlatives from Game of the Year to Esports Cosplay of the Year. Anywhere competition occurs, there will be winners and losers. These are two … Read more
Oklahoma is one of the few remaining states in the USA that has yet to legalize some form of locally regulated sports betting. Area lawmakers and Native American gaming associations are interested in the prospect of legal sports betting in Oklahoma, but a senate bill was unable to cross the finish line in 2023. OK … Read more
On September 12, 2023, at 8:00 PM, MTV’s annual Video Music Awards will begin at the Prudential Center in New Jersey, NJ. Taylor Swift has received eight VMA nominations for 2023, the most of any artist this year. SZA has been nominated for six MTV Video Music Awards and comes in second behind Swift. Six other … Read more
This Saturday night on ESPN+ pay-per-view, UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling puts his belt up against Sean O’Malley in the Octagon at UFC 292 in Boston, MA’s TD Garden. Sterling vs. O’Malley betting lines and MMA props have turned up at legal online UFC sportsbooks, with the odds strongly suggesting that the champion will hold … Read more
Here at SBL, we’ve created a Sports Betting Hall of Fame that acknowledges great achievements in the spectrum of wagering on pro and college games. Spots in the Hall can be earned by the brazen nature of a big-money wager or through high-profile activity over the course of several years. Outlandish wagers have garnered Hall … Read more
After playing professional football in the Washington, D.C. area as the Redskins for 87 years, former owner Daniel Snyder succumbed to pressure to change their name in 2020. That season, the Washington Football Team took to the field but only held that title for two total seasons. In 2022, the Washington Commanders were born, but … Read more
The realm of college football betting forever changed last week when the Pac-12 conference was gutted by the Big 12 and Big Ten. All but four current 2023 Pac-12 schools will play in a different conference in 2024. That leaves the Cal-Berkely Golden Bears, Oregon State Beavers, Stanford Cardinal, and Washington State without a conference … Read more
Four current Iowa State athletes and one former football player that’s now in the NFL have been accused of betting on NCAAF games, many of which involved the Cyclones. Game tampering and point shaving has been a major concern of lawmakers across the country when considering the regulation of sports betting. Many US states have … Read more
This Saturday at 8 PM, WWE’s SummerSlam begins in Detroit’s Ford Field, home of the NFL’s Lions. There was a time not too long ago when legally betting on pro wrestling was limited to odds on WrestleMania each spring. Now, there are wrestling odds offered at most of the sportsbooks we frequent for a majority … Read more
The popularity of domestic sports betting has been on a steady incline since the overturn of PASPA by the US Supreme Court in 2018. Only a dozen US states now remain without at least some form of locally regulated sportsbook open for business. However, the market has been competitive. Sure, FanDuel, DraftKings, and BetMGM are … Read more
On Tuesday, three casinos in MA received hefty fines for taking illegal sports bets. The crime? offering betting odds on a college basketball game that included teams based in Massachusetts. Legal sports betting in MA began on January 31, 2023, and within days, all three in-person sportsbooks had taken bets on local college teams. For … Read more