Friday’s revelations that 15 United Kingdom football clubs carried gambling links on their junior club pages has drawn plenty of public heat and immediate demands from UK government agencies to remedy the situation. In the expose aired by BBC’s 5 live Investigates, virtually all of the clubs were found to have the links to real […]

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US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has joined in the call for federal-level regulation of sports betting in the wake of this spring’s US Supreme Court ruling that nullified the quarter-century old law that banned such wagering across almost the entire United States. The push by Senator Schumer, a New York State Democrat, joins an […]

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If you’ve been watching legal-news reports connected to this summer’s FIFA World Cup and to sports betting in general, you might have notices quite the swarm of stories emanating from China and other Southeast Asia countries, especially stories detailing widespread crackdowns on major illicit sports-wagering rings. Such wagering is generally illegal throughout most of that […]

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Things are happening fast in the United States these days, with respect to deals happening and new sports-betting markets opening on a state-by-state basis. On July 29, in one of the largest related business deals announced to date, US casino corporation MGM Resorts International and Isle of Man-based GVC Holdings PLC, a major force on […]

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FIFA has giving the official thumbs-down to Saudi Arabian referee Fahad Al Mirdasi, who was among the officials originally selected to work the upcoming World Cup in Russia, but who confessed to attempting to fix an important match in Saudi Araba and was recently issued a lifetime ban by that country’s football ruling body. Al […]

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