Rooney’s England return and Houghton’s international ‘ban’. Wayne Rooney will come out of retirement to play for England next week in a PR exercise vaguely disguised as a football match between the Three Lions and the USA. Rooney is currently enjoying his retirement with DC United in the MLS but will turn out for Gareth […]

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Speaking of recent happenings in the United States sports betting market, a major sports betting partnership has been announced between the National Hockey League (NHL) and MGM Resorts International, one of the US’s major casino-entertainment corporations. The deal was announced in New York City in a press conference featuring NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and MGM Resorts […]

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The ongoing expansion of legalized sports betting in several US states continues to provide bettors and fans with plenty of entertaining stories, one of the latest of which comes from New Jersey, where William Hill US is suing upstart sportsbook rival FanDuel over a how-to sports betting pamphlet that FanDuel appears to have stolen in […]

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Paddy Power Betfair is the latest prominent book to run afoul of the United Kingdom Gambling Commission’s get-tougher policies regarding keeping a lookout for problem-gambling behaviour and doing “Know Your Customer” (KYC) checks on punters who seemingly have way more money to gamble than their known means and lifestyle would suggest. On Tuesday, both the […]

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This spring’s abolishment by the US Supreme Court of the quarter-century-old “PASPA” law that barred single-event sports betting across virtually the entire United States promised to bring in a new era of legalized sports wagering across the country, managed by individual US states on a state-by-state basis, though a recent US Congressional hearing shows that […]

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