Nevada gaming regulators will permit gambling operators to accept wagers involving sports betting placed over Blackberry devices starting this football season. And American Wagering, the company which developed the mobile gambling application, says residents of that state will soon have programs to place bets on sports over iPhones, Droids, and other popular phones. Other than [...]

Dennis Gomes, who worked for both the Nevada Gaming Commission and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement before developing his own casino company, agreed last week to buy Resorts Atlantic City, the historic casino that was the first to open in 1978 when state gambling laws were changed. Gomes Gaming’s purchase of the troubled [...]

For years, whispers have dogged Michael Jordan, perpetuating talk that his abrupt retirement from the Chicago Bulls in 1993 to go play baseball was in actuality a secret suspension levied by Commissioner David Stern imposed for uncontrollable gambling behavior. But now, an intense investigation by a famed Hollywood director reveals there is no substantiation to [...]

For almost a year, Tiger Woods has been in free-fall from his status as the world’s greatest golfer and one of online gambling’s most sure things. Since his midnight fight with wife Elin over the discovery of marital infidelity, Woods has endured public humiliation, a forced absence from the game, and a return that seems [...]

Players using estimates of NFL team strength provided by such luminary sports sites as ESPN and CBSSports may find their betting on future win totals is based on crude and inaccurate information. An article by ESPN’s sports gambling expert, Chad Millman, reveals that bookmakers are far more sophisticated in calculating football teams’ strength of schedule [...]

While the general public seems to sway in fascination at every Brett Favre waver toward retirement, the smart money at online sports betting sites had already figured in Favre’s return to the Minnesota Vikings, announced earlier this week. Even though experts at ESPN and other media sites agree the Vikings’ Super Bowl chances are greatly [...]

Even as Barney Frank champions the cause of personal freedom in pushing his bill licensing online gambling sites, the Massachusetts Representative lives up to his name by frankly admitting past federal policy seeking to make home ownership easily attainable may be a mistake. Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, suggested the government [...]

Bobby Thomson’s death today illustrates a point Barry Bonds and Reggie Bush would enjoy hearing. Punishment after the fact for sports cheaters does little to alter what happened; as gamblers well know, once the final score is confirmed it’s time to settle up and move on to the next game. Thomson hit the home run [...]

A new computer program takes software designed to predict for populations and applies it to specific individuals, saying which felons are more likely to commit more crimes in the future. The software is already being employed to set bails and jail sentences in Baltimore and Philadelphia, effectively meaning courts are gambling on which offenders may [...]

After struggling for several years with the debt taken on by bringing the company private, Harrah’s Entertainment executives may be examining options for returning the company to public trading. This week, the company made filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation for the sale of ten percent of the casino operator to hedge-fund [...]