It took a little while for league executives to get all of the plans sorted, but the National Basketball Association (NBA) has now set a return date of July 31 to restart their season. Commissioner Adam Silver has set the table for a 22-team playoff format that will occur in Orlando, Florida’s Walt Disney’s ESPN … Read more
On Thursday at 10 AM, Illinois officially released their first online sportsbook for use on personal computers and mobile devices while inside the state’s borders. The Rivers Casino in Des Plains, IL, has teamed up with the gaming technology group Rush Street Interactive to create their new mobile sportsbook, BetRivers. This new domestic online betting … Read more
After a several week layover, the PGA Tour is back in play, and offshore betting sites are teeing up odds featuring the top golfers in the world. The second round of the PGA Tour’s Charles Schwab Challenge is underway, reviving legal sports betting for legions of starved golf fanatics. With professional golf restarting the schedule … Read more
After a months-long coronavirus hiatus that bunk science hasn’t backed up, the Sweet Science is finally back. Tonight at 7:00 p.m. EST on ESPN, Top Rank is putting on the boxing world’s first contest since the shutdowns closed sports worldwide. The bouts will be held in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Conference Center. Past … Read more
Professional wrestling is one of the few live performance promotions that has managed to continue production throughout the entire COVID-19 shutdown. Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has been operating without fans in attendance for over two months now, and the WWE has opted to pre-tape television and pay-per-view programming as opposed to presenting it … Read more
The opportunities for legal sports betting have been few and far between over the last several weeks, but NASCAR is back in season and tonight’s 2020 Alsco Uniforms 500 has got oddsmakers busy creating a bevy of enticing lines. The race was originally scheduled to occur last night, but heavy rains from Tropical Storm Bertha … Read more
All-Elite Wrestling – Double Or Nothing Pay-Per-View Saturday, May 23rd at 8 PM Daily’s Place, Jacksonville, Florida Pay-Per-View: B/R Live (USA & Canada), FiteTV (International) $49.99 Preshow begins at 7:30 PM on B/R Live & AEW’s YouTube Channel All-Elite Wrestling (AEW) has emerged as a legitimate contender against the #1 industry promotion, World Wrestling Entertainment. … Read more
Are you ready for some football? No, not that kind, you silly Americans. After pausing play on March 13, the Bundesliga – Germany’s top soccer league and the fastest-growing football association in the world – is finally back in front of the fans. This past weekend, Budesliga 1 action resumed, with teams playing before crowd-free … Read more
“The House always wins” is no longer true after the coronavirus caused sportsbooks in Las Vegas and Nevada to suffered considerable losses in March 2020. Across all of the state’s sportsbook operators, the total amount of revenue generated from Nevada sports betting amounted to $1.45 million, according to the March report released on Wednesday by … Read more
The quarantine edition of the 2020 NFL Draft is officially in the history books—and you can bet fans and gamblers saved ample evidence of “Mister Roger’s Virtualhood” so that future generations could bask in Goodell’s gaffes and memes from the three-day online event. 2020 NFL Draft prop betting was a roaring success, according to early … Read more
The first-ever legal sportsbooks in Colorado will launch before the week is over, but the odds of early success couldn’t be farther from “mile high” given the current outlook of the country and the world as a whole. Regulators from the Colorado Division of Gaming recently confirmed they have no intention of waiting for sporting … Read more
Round one of the 2020 NFL Draft betting props is officially in the cloud somewhere. Although much of first-day odds were graded as chalk, there were a few surprises that while ten’s of millions at home watched Thursday evening to see what would happen in commissioner Roger Goodell’s den. The second day of the virtual … Read more