8 Best Super Bowl Ads Ever
The Super Bowl is the best time of the year to bet on sports in America, featuring a great matchup and tons of props
The Super Bowl is the best time of the year to bet on sports in America, featuring a great matchup and tons of props
Basketball is no longer an “American” game. It’s gone international. And that’s the best news basketball fans have gotten in a long time. Basketball was invented by Massachusetts gym teacher James Naismith in 1891. While the godfather of basketball was actually born in Canada, he was an American citizen, and basketball is considered a quintessential […]
Basketball is the world’s greatest sport, and the NBA is its greatest league. But the NBA is much more than great. It’s also absolutely absurd. Basketball is the best sport on Earth. Watch a clip of Lebron James weaving through traffic to make a layup, or Stephen Curry shooting a picture-perfect three pointer, and the […]
American gambling laws have heavily restricted sports betting since 1992, but that looks like it will change sooner rather than later. American laws and social norms represent a messy hodgepodge of excessive libertarianism and repressive puritanism. In few (if any) places on Earth do people have the freedom to do so much, yet seemingly always […]
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The Revel Casino closed its doors less than two years after opening. Will it find life after death? This year, any gambling news coming out of Atlantic City is bad news. Earlier in 2014 the Revel Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City filed for bankruptcy less than two years after opening. While the casino’s owners […]
Former New Jersey Governors say yay to Chris Christie and North Jersey casino, nay to Atlantic City. New Jersey is one of America’s most talked about states. Whether its not-so-good news like the much-publicized decline of Atlantic City and the state’s infamously high rates of crime and pollution, or positives like Governor Chris Christie’s potential […]
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has shocked everyone by publicly calling for sports betting to be legalized. The only remaining questions are why, how and when? “Betting on professional sports is currently illegal in most of the United States outside of Nevada. I believe we need a different approach.” These are not the words of Calvin […]
Kelly Stewart is proving that good looks and great betting can go together like white and rice. This isn’t your dad’s betting shop, a smoke-filled hovel packed with men on their lunch break, being served by an overweight guy with his armpit hair showing through his shirt. This is modern Vegas, a magical place where […]
Week 11 in the NFL is set to be a wild one. We’ve got the key facts and figures you need to make smart bets this week. • New England at Indianapolis looks like a push • Look for Arizona to beat the spread if Detroit becomes the favorite • The Vikings look to poised […]
New Jersey is bent on launching a sportsbetting market. America’s biggest sports leagues are bent on stopping it. To bet on sports in America is much more complicated than across the border in Canada or in the UK. The federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) ensures that Nevada is the only state with […]