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Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit was allowed to enter the Preakness Stakes, with conditions, despite failing a drug test after the first Triple Crown leg.

The top prize — which has been climbing since mid-February — for Tuesday night’s drawing marks the ninth-largest in Mega Millions history.

Whether you’d choose to take the windfall as an annuity or a lump sum of $316.2 million, there are ways to smooth the transition to extreme wealth.

The change was made possible because the Nevada Gaming Control Board, which sets the rules for casinos, reacted quickly to update its rules.

DraftKings said it has 1.5 million monthly unique paying customers as of its first quarter, holding onto the gains in made in the pervious quarter.

There are some key things that experts say jackpot winners need to consider before doing much of anything.

DraftKings agreed to a multiyear deal with mixed martial arts company Professional Fighters League worth under $10 million.

The Canada-based gaming and media company is worth $1 billion and wants to gain market share in U.S. online sports betting.

Experts say gambling addiction is on the rise amid the coronavirus pandemic. NBC10’s Tim Furlong has the details.

Sports betting firm PointsBet will pay off Banach Technology’s debt and distribute one million shares after acquiring it.

While missing out on $1 million seems bad enough, it’s a far cry from the multimillion jackpots that occasionally are never claimed.

A gambling industry group wants to teach consumers how to tell if a particular sports betting or online casino site is legal or not.

The agreement grants DraftKings the rights to be UFC’s sportsbook partner and includes rights to licensing a countdown clock.

Simplebet CEO Chris Bevilacqua told CNBC the firm is also in discussions with another top tier sports gambling provider for its micro-betting product.

ETF players are doubling down on the online gambling and sports betting arena.

America’s sportsbooks blanketed the country in waves of advertising in the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl.

It was supposed to be one of the biggest nights of the year for gambling sites. Instead, they couldn’t handle the traffic.

Online gambling got a major boost from the Covid crisis, yet overall, Americans will wager $4.3 billion on this year’s Super Bowl, a 37% decline from 2020.

From the color of the Gatorade used to douse the winning coach to how long the singing of the national anthem will last, Super Bowl betting and prop wagers have become as much a part of the event as the game itself. Even occasional bettors often find themselves drawn into placing a small wager on who will win the coin...

While the broader public may have gotten its first glimpse this week of the troubling and addictive nature of trading apps like Robinhood, gambling experts, finance watchers and even rival trading apps have long been thinking about how to address these problems, NBC News reports. “The online day trader with problems is indistinguishable from the online gambling addict,” said Keith...