Puerto Rico: Political Storms Could Stall Sports Betting
by Marjorie Preston
It was only a couple of months ago – April, to be exact – when Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló shared his plans for a legal sports betting industry with Global Gaming Business.
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Puerto Rico: Political Storms Could Stall Sports Betting
by Marjorie Preston
It was only a couple of months ago – April, to be exact – when Puerto Rican Governor Rosselló shared his plans for a legal sports betting industry with Global Gaming Business.
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Best Ways For NCAA To Monetize Sports Betting
by Jill Dorson
The NCAA last week announced that it will continue to oppose sports betting despite the fact that 10 states have some form of legal, live sports betting and eight more expect to offer it by early 2020. But whether or not the NCAA chooses to publicly embrace or co-exist with legal, state-regulated sports betting, the association has more opportunities to monetize in this new era.
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On Paper NCAA Opposes Sports Betting. Should It Continue To?
By Jill R. Dorson
Auburn. Boston College. Northwestern. San Diego State. And most recently, UNC-Greensboro.
What do these 5 colleges have in common? If you’re into sports betting, you had the answer before the question was asked – sports betting scandals. At Auburn and Boston College, it was point shaving in basketball; at Northwestern, players fixed games in 1995; at San Diego State it was sports bribery and throwing games in 2011.
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Rise of the dragon: Cambodia’s Chinese-led casino boom show no signs of abating
Chinese nationals now control over 90 percent of businesses in Sithanoukville, Cambodia’s only deep-sea port, including over three quarters of the city’s casino operations.
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More U.S. Tariffs Could Squeeze U.S. Operators in Macau
by James Rutherford
Macau’s three U.S. – based gaming operators Wynn Resorts, Las Vegas Sands and MGM Resorts International couldn’t have been pleased last week to hear that President Donald Trump plans to tax an additional $300 billion of Chinese imports.
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FanDuel Pennsylvania Sports Betting Strategy Worked in NJ
by Brant James
The boundary is as nondescript as the view from the Walt Whitman Bridge, less than a mile from where the leftward veer in Interstate 76 reminds commuters of where they are.
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US, global sportsbook operators see Nevada as “gold standard”
by Bailey Schultz
Sportsbook operator William Hill has seen tremendous growth since the London-based company was first granted a Nevada gaming license in 2012, according to U.S. CEO Joe Asher.
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2025 deadline for Osaka IR “unlikely”
While analysts have suggested that the Japanese government will need to resolve several outstanding issues by Q2 2020, in order for Osaka to have an IR open in time for the World Expo in 2025, MGM chairman and CEO Jim Murren acknowledged that whoever wins a license “is going to have their work cut out”.
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The best – and worst – places to put a Chicago casino
by Ed Zotti
The best place to put a casino?
Michigan Avenue and Lake Street, which is a short distance from Millennium Park, the Riverwalk and the Randolph Street theater district.
The worst place? The former Michael Reese Hospital site on the Near South Side – or any other isolated, blank-slate location.
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