A bipartisan measure would force betting and prediction-market apps to scan a user’s face before a wager, all in the name of shutting kids out. Few argue with the aim, yet the specifics, and the label on the bill, are murkier than they first appear. Legislation now in Congress would slip a camera between you … Read more
Federal regulators are examining whether the president’s teleprompter operator used advance knowledge of speech drafts to win on a Kalshi market, the clearest example yet of the insider problem that has trailed prediction markets all year. It is the scenario prediction-market skeptics have warned about for a year, and it just landed inside the White … Read more
Pennsylvania collected $7,005,987,435 in gaming revenue in fiscal 2025/26, a 9.56% increase and its first year above $7 billion. Internet casino gaming grew 18.42% to $2.93 billion and now returns more tax to the state than retail slot machines. Sports wagering revenue jumped 35.95% to $662.9 million even though the amount wagered fell 3.14%. Retail … Read more
The rollout pushes walk-up sports betting into corner stores as most wagering shifts to phones. Self-service betting kiosks now sit at every one of Delaware’s 89 Sports Lottery retailers and its three casinos. The Delaware Lottery finished the statewide installation on June 26 and announced it in mid-July. Scientific Games built the kiosks and Caesars … Read more
How a state taxes its sportsbooks decided whether record June betting filled its tax coffers or left them short.
Record wagering in the country’s largest market produced its thinnest margin yet, and the state’s education fund collected $46 million less than a year
No state opened a new online sports betting or online casino market in the year’s first six months, even as US commercial gaming set a sixth straight
The state’s fresh budget makes operating a sportsbook pricier while giving a competing product a gentle landing, and a few legislators fear the imbalance could siphon off the very dollars the increase was supposed to bring in. In one budget, North Carolina made sportsbooks costlier to operate and, at the very same moment, gave a … Read more
A letter of inquiry sent to the University of Cincinnati shifts the focus from what quarterback Brendan Sorsby did to what his school knew, and it could reshape how programs are held responsible when an athlete bets. For a year, the story was about a player. Now it is about a program. The NCAA’s long-running … Read more
One firm’s review tallies $520 million on star endorsements last year and just $60 million on player-safety efforts, a gap worth weighing seriously, provided you remember who did the tallying. Sit through a few hours of live sports and the celebrity pitches run together, a parade of athletes and actors hawking the same betting apps. … Read more