Rams vs 49ers Odds: LA Favored In Melbourne Opener

Rams vs 49ers Odds: LA Favored In Melbourne Opener

Thursday’s Melbourne opener has the Rams laying 3.5 points at BetOnline and 4 at Bovada against the 49ers. Bovada and BetOnline both set the total at 48, a number that requires real scoring from both offenses. Los Angeles carries a moneyline near -210, while San Francisco returns between +175 and +177 as the underdog. No … Read more

Underdog Ends Drafts In 7 States To Keep Prediction Markets

Underdog Ends Drafts In 7 States To Keep Prediction Markets

New Drafts entries stop in Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio once Wednesday’s NFL opener begins. The seven states told Underdog it could not run prediction markets and hold fantasy licenses at the same time. Drafts already entered in those states will continue and pay out normally, but no new entries will … Read more

New Jersey Online Casinos Close July Gap To $27 Million

New Jersey Online Casinos Close July Gap To $27 Million

New Jersey online casinos won $276.9 million in July, $27.3 million behind the nine Atlantic City casino floors. The same July gap ran $36.8 million a year earlier, when the floors won $284.1 million. Internet gaming win leads casino win $1.87 billion to $1.72 billion through seven months of 2026. Total gaming revenue rose 11.9% … Read more

West Virginia Sports Betting Dips As iGaming Climbs

West Virginia Sports Betting Dips As iGaming Climbs

West Virginia online sports betting revenue fell 15 percent to $2.5 million over the four reporting weeks through Aug. 22. iGaming produced $28.8 million on $706.6 million in wagers during the fiscal year’s opening four weeks through July 25. Each of the four August iGaming weeks topped every full July week, peaking at $9.6 million … Read more

DraftKings Leads Kentucky Sports Betting Handle For June

DraftKings Leads Kentucky Sports Betting Handle For June

DraftKings led Kentucky’s nine online betting apps with $85.1 million of June’s $219.3 million handle, a 38.8 percent share. Every Kentucky betting app operates on a horse track’s license, and eight tracks hosted nine apps in June. Churchill Downs hosted the smallest app, with Prime handling $1.6 million, under 1 percent of online wagers. Online … Read more

Kalshi Supreme Court Fight Hinges On Sept. 3 Deadline

Kalshi Supreme Court Fight Hinges On Sept. 3 Deadline

New Jersey has until Sept. 3 to ask the Supreme Court to review the Third Circuit ruling protecting Kalshi’s sports contracts. Justice Samuel Alito twice extended New Jersey’s time to file, moving the deadline from July 5 to Sept. 3. The Ninth Circuit’s Aug. 28 ruling for Nevada split the appeals courts on whether states … Read more

Nevada Gaming Revenue: Strip Gains Mask Wider Declines

Nevada Gaming Revenue: Strip Gains Mask Wider Declines

Nevada casinos won $1.39 billion in July, up 2.07% from a year earlier, the state gaming board reported. The Las Vegas Strip’s win rose 3.64% to $776.3 million while Downtown Las Vegas fell 8.64% and the Boulder Strip dropped 2.48%. Clark County’s overall win rose just 1.51% because the county’s combined win outside the Strip … Read more

Ninth Circuit Kalshi Ruling Backs Nevada Sports Ban

Ninth Circuit Kalshi Ruling Backs Nevada Sports Ban

A Ninth Circuit panel ruled 3-0 that Nevada can enforce its gambling laws against Kalshi’s sports event contracts. Sports contracts made up more than 90% of Kalshi’s trades and 95% of its revenue in 2025, the court noted. The ruling conflicts with a Third Circuit decision favoring Kalshi, splitting the federal appeals courts on the … Read more

NFL Week 1 Unders Have Hit 55% Since 2005

NFL Week 1 Unders Have Hit 55% Since 2005

Week 1 unders are 96-79 (54.9%) since 2015 and 55% since 2005, well above the 52.4% break-even mark at -110. Books have posted Week 1 2026 totals already, from 39 for Jets-Titans up to 51 for Buccaneers-Bengals. Unders went 11-1 across the first two Sunday windows of 2025, when scoring fell to 20.7 points per … Read more

Connecticut Sues Kalshi Over Illegal Sports Bets

Connecticut Sues Kalshi Over Illegal Sports Bets

Connecticut’s complaint accuses Kalshi of letting minors open accounts and paying underage promoters on TikTok and X. The suit cites Kalshi’s own federal court filing that put sports contracts at 80% to 90% of its offerings in February. A Connecticut federal judge rejected Kalshi’s derivatives defense on Aug. 7, a ruling the new state complaint … Read more