For many of the teams playing in their conference championship games this weekend, this weekend’s games have more on the line. With wins, teams like Ohio State, LSU, Clemson, and Georgia could secure their places in this season’s College Football Playoff. College football’s top-ranked team, the Ohio State Buckeyes, are big favorites in their matchup … Read more
Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler never had much in common during their lifetimes. That is, except for the fact that both were once Person of the Year for Time. The Person of the Year award, known as the Man or Woman of the Year until 1999, began in 1927 when Time editors wanted to accent … Read more
Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back. No more, no more, no more, no more! What’d you say?! In a nutshell, that’s the message the DC Council sent to Councilmember Jack Evans, the bill sponsor for Washington DC sports betting, as more evidence of his ethics violations begins to come to light. The … Read more
If losing a bet on the NFL wasn’t bad enough, Arizona Cardinals cornerback Josh Shaw may have just flushed his career down the drain as well. Shaw was suspended indefinitely by the NFL on Friday, November 29, for betting on multiple NFL games during the 2019 season. He can file a petition on Feb. 15, … Read more
Celebrities: they’re just like us. They eat, sleep, and interact like anybody else, with the addition of fame and fortune, of course. Like 90% of people in the United States, one thing most superstars in America do is celebrate Christmas. One particular socialite that celebrates is Kim Kardashian. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star … Read more
Taylor Swift has always been protective over her music, going as far as issuing cease-and-desist letters to Etsy store owners for using her lyrics on products. However, that pales in comparison to the current feud between Swift and Ithaca Ventures Chairman Scooter Braun. It all started when Braun’s company purchased Big Machine Records, the independent … Read more
We hope everyone had a succulent Thanksgiving Day feast and arrives back home safely, especially with Winter Storm Ezekiel causing delays throughout the northern United States. And with Black Friday and Cyber Monday kicking off the holiday shopping season, there haven’t been too many developments on legal sports betting at the state level. Very few … Read more
Thanksgiving football is about as American as pretending to enjoy canned cranberry sauce. This year’s slate of NFL Turkey Day games includes: the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions, the Buffalo Bills and Dallas Cowboys, and the New Orleans Saints versus the Atlanta Falcons. To help drown out the inevitable bickering between family members, BetOnline has … Read more
Take note, America—this is how market leaders crush the competition. Laws written to favor corporate interests and exclusivity deals have plagued legalized sports betting ever since the federal prohibition ended last year, becoming the latest industry in the United States to be seized by an oligarchy. But for sports betting in New Hampshire, we just … Read more
The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards are not until January 26, 2020, but that doesn’t mean prop bets are off-limits until then. Online sportsbook BetOnline is currently accepting action on some of the ceremony’s biggest awards, including Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year. Pop sensation Billie … Read more
If you live in one of the states that have legalized sports betting—currently 19 states and Washington DC—then for this Thanksgiving, I bet you’re thankful for the licensed and regulated sportsbooks that are either already accepting wagers or will launch sometime next year. Most of the United States still doesn’t have the option to place … Read more
Like Sam Cooke famously sang in 1959: “Everybody loves to cha cha cha.” Little did Sam know everybody would love to watch celebrities do the cha cha cha on television decades later. The 28th season of Dancing with the Stars will conclude tonight with the finale featuring the showdown between reality star Hannah Brown, singers … Read more