Makhachev’s unanimous-decision win over Ian Machado Garry was his 17th straight, breaking Anderson Silva’s UFC record of 16. Silva set the mark of 16 between June 2006 and October 2012, and it had stood nearly 14 years. Makhachev landed seven takedowns, improved to 29-1 and has not lost since his streak began in September 2016. … Read more
Cristobal announced the dismissal Monday on his weekly WQAM radio appearance and gave no reason for it. Vaughn caught 35 passes for 541 yards and four touchdowns in 12 appearances at West Virginia last season. Miami is -140 to win the ACC, a price implying about 58%, with SMU next at +700. The Hurricanes open … Read more
Britain’s remote gaming duty rose from 21% to 40% on April 1, costing Bally’s about $39 million of segment profit. Bally’s offset close to 65% of that hit through revenue growth and cost control. Bally’s Intralot B2C revenue rose 22.3% to $243.5 million while the segment’s profit fell 13.9% to $64.7 million. Consolidated revenue reached … Read more
Baltimore filed consumer-protection suits Thursday against Kalshi and Polymarket in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. The Kalshi complaint also names its brokerage partners Robinhood, Webull and Coinbase as defendants. The city seeks civil penalties, restitution, disgorgement and an order barring transactions from Baltimore residents. Maryland’s own enforcement against Kalshi remains paused while the Fourth … Read more
The Nevada Council on Problem Gambling will formally end its affiliation with the national council this month. Kalshi accepts traders at 18, while NCPG’s own standards strongly recommend a minimum gambling age of 21. NCPG took a $2 million, two-year investment from Kalshi in May as its first financial services member. The Michigan Gaming Control … Read more
FlightAware dismissed the case without prejudice under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i), which leaves it free to refile the same claims. Judge Arun Subramanian had set a temporary restraining order hearing for Aug. 13 before the dismissal ended the case. The six-count complaint pleaded Lanham Act trademark infringement, breach of contract and New York unfair competition. Kalshi’s market … Read more
The CFTC ordered KalshiEX LLC to keep operating under the Commodity Exchange Act’s Core Principles and its normal practices. KalshiEX notified the commission of a market emergency on Aug. 1, and that notification triggered the federal order. New York’s July 31 complaint seeks to bar all Kalshi event contracts nationwide and more than $36 billion … Read more
Colorado operators may take only six deposits from a single customer in a gaming day. No dollar ceiling applies, so six deposits of $20 and six of $5,000 sit inside the same limit. Each operator defines its own 24-hour gaming day, so the reset point differs from app to app. Taking a credit-card deposit carries … Read more
Fourteen public comments and one legislative comment reached the docket before the window closed Aug. 10. Clinicians asked the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to make limit setting the default at account creation. Aristocrat estimated about 18 months to build the proposed jackpot and auto-play limits across its systems. The package amends nine chapters of Pennsylvania’s … Read more
A federal judge denied Kalshi’s bid to block Connecticut from enforcing its gambling laws against sports contracts. The court held the contracts are not swaps, leaving them outside the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction. The order says Congress never displaced the states’ historic police power over sports betting through Dodd-Frank. Coinbase lost a matching motion before the … Read more