sports betting

The NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball joined forces to produce a “Never Know What’s Next” ad promoting responsible sports betting.

Boston-based DraftKings issued an apology on Monday for offering a “Never Forget” parlay involving New York sports teams on the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Kentucky residents are now able to legally bet on games for the first time — and by doing so, they also will be funding the state’s first-ever program for people with gambling problems.

The move will help Fanatics, the sports apparel and memorabilia giant, gain market share in the American sports betting and online casino markets.

Imagine being able to make a bet with this level of specificity: the Yankees’ Aaron Judge will hit a home run on the fourth pitch he sees in a given at bat, which will be a curveball spinning at a certain speed. While it’s incredibly unlikely to win, it’s the kind of thing that could be offered soon to sports...

Americans have bet over $220 billion on sports with legal gambling outlets in the five years since the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for all 50 states to offer it.

New Jersey has a pending bill to prohibit sports book partnerships with public colleges or universities, and one that “condemns the over-proliferation of pro-gambling ads in New Jersey.”

The gambling industry’s national trade group predicts that 1-in-5 American adults will make a bet on Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.

Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk breaks down how the Chiefs and Eagles can win Super Bowl LVII in Arizona.

The Super Bowl draws a larger portion of casual bettors than other American sporting events. The numerous proposition options available underscore how the game’s mass appeal goes well beyond professional gamblers and hardcore fans. Sportsbooks have taken advantage of the increasing popularity of prop bets. Those bets could range anywhere from whether there will be a safety to whether the...

New Jersey gambling regulators have fined Caesars Sportsbook for wrongly refusing to pay out over $27,000 to a gambler who made winning bets on an international hockey game last year. The dispute involved whether goals scored in overtime should count in determining whether bets are winners or losers. It’s the same type of pitfall many soccer bettors may soon face...

Notable sports bettor ‘Mattress Mack’ gave out over 100 mattresses as a thank you to first responders, active military and veterans after betting big money on the Astros clinching the World Series. NBC10’s Ted Greenberg has the details.

Russell Wilson hasn’t exactly been cooking with Denver. PointsBet is now offering a free bet for anyone who took Wilson to win the MVP this season

With legal sports betting in its fifth year in much of the U.S., things are getting much more intense, with increasing ways to bet and more opportunities to rapidly win — and lose — money.

The state of Massachusetts came to a last-minute agreement Sunday night that will legalize sports betting in the Commonwealth. Here are the details.

New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners of both types of gambling outlets won $430.6 million from gamblers in May, up 15% from a year earlier, new figures show.