Latest Sports Betting News

The Australian Football League is calling on the country’s government to make ground breaking changes to gambling legislation so that in-betting will be allowed in live games.

Betfair, the global facing online gambling company, acquired TV Games Network, official TV and interactive betting partner for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association in the United States. The deal essentially gives Betfair a legal entry into the gambling market in the country, for which it paid $50 million.

Paddy Power, the popular Irish bookmaker, has extended a serious invitation to the President of the United States, Barack Obama to attend the Aintree Grand National horse races in April next year.

The former Chief Executive Officer of one of the US’s largest past betting groups, BetOnSports, David Carruthers, has entered into a plea agreement with the Department of Justice in a bid to get his prison sentence reduced.

BetClic, the online betting operation with a presence in over twelve countries in Europe, has announced what is possibly be the most lucrative sponsorship deal in its six year history.

The Prosecutor’s Office in Seoul, Korea has announced that sixteen professional baseball players have been questioned in recent weeks over their alleged involvement in what is perceived to be illegal online wagering.

New Jersey Senator Raymond Lesniak has said that he will sue the state and ask to have the seventeen year old Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act repealed, in a bid to legalize sports betting.

The eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eCOGRA), one of the gambling industry’s most powerful watchdog groups, announced this week that its independent testing and monitoring services would be expanded to include sportsbetting and bingo. In addition, live gaming would also receive the group’s attention.

For years, 4TheGame soccer site has served the football fans of the world as a place to come to in order to socialize, chat on forums, share information about favorite teams and read the latest news about the industry.

Sports betting fans should be pleased to note that a new betting platform has been launched in the form of Typhoon Pools. This new product will offer players the chance to wager on Australian soccer and horse racing, although plans in incorporate other sports types (eg. Rugby, cricket and FIFA soccer events) are already underway.

As an icy winter grips the United Kingdom, bookmakers are offering odds on literally everything under the weather! Prior to Christmas, William Hill was taking bets on whether the UK would celebrate a white Christmas Day – and then heaved a sigh of relief when the day proved to be snow-less.

Ahead of the announcement of this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, online gambling sites reported a series of suspicious betting patterns that were subsequently reported to the Nobel Foundation.

This year saw a record breaking number of people wager on the results of the 2009 Academy Awards, with many getting good returns on their money after the film “Slumdog Millionaire” walked away with no less than eight Oscars.

A deal signed between the gambling giant, Betfair and the Australian Cricket Association is causing waves, after an ad featuring online gambling promotions was allowed to air during the traditional Boxing Day Test played between Australia and South Africa.

The independent Irish bookmaker, Bruce Betting, which runs over 60 betting shops across the country, has joined Ongame’s excellent poker network, making it the newest company that Ongame has added to its growing group of licensees.