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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Punters keeping an eye on the high-profile and often fractious relationship between the United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) and the gambling operators the agency licenses and oversees have some new signposts to monitor. The Gambling Commission has just released its business plan for the 2018-19 fiscal year, which outlines how the Commission will be operating […]

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William Hill US’s marketing ploy to capture some off-season National Football League betting action turned out to bring more negative attention than positive, thanks to a company foul-up in paying out winners on one of the prop bets being last month. Now, the company’s US-market foothold in Nevada will likely have to find a way […]

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It’s been another bad run for professional tennis as it pertains for sports betting, centering on last week’s report by the Independent Review Panel of the massive integrity and match-fixing problems occurring in the lower ranks of professional tennis around the globe. The massive £20m study has taken 27 months just to produce an 80-page “interim” […]

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The mergers-and-acquisitions wave that’s marked the global gambling and sports betting scene notched another important development this week with the sale of Sky Bet’s corporate parent Sky Betting & Gaming (SBG), to Canada’s The Stars Group (TSG). The massive sale, valued at €3.1 billion (or about CA $4.7 billion) is one of the largest-ever deals consummated […]

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