With football season upon us and a holiday weekend ahead, we bring you our annual “GIANT SIZE SPECIAL SEASON OPENING DOUBLE ISSUE”, dutifully poly-bagged to protect against rain and probing non-subscriber fingers.
In this SBJ Betting newsletter: A pair of recent advisories from the CFTC will change the way sports betting looks – literally – in newly opened states such as California and Texas. More sportsbook deals likely still to come for NFL. And what we know about how big World Cup betting really was.
Fanatics has signed on as an official sportsbook of the NFL, breaking a logjam that left the sponsor category vacant for the league since multi-year deals with FanDuel, DraftKings and Caesars expired at the end of March.
The World Cup has sportsbooks on pace to reverse six consecutive months of year-on-year decline, with June handle tracking 26% higher than last June in the 24 states that have reported results for that month.
From NBA cut to Hall of Fame broadcaster, James Brown shares how Harvard, Xerox sales and faith shaped his NFL Today career, relentless preparation and leadership in sports media.
Fanatics Predicts has landed US rights to offer the official prediction markets of the World Cup, combining with global FIFA rights-holder ADI PredictStreet on a co-branded digital hub that will include tournament news, stats and other in-app content.
Veteran sports business educator Jim Kahler plans to retire from Cleveland State at the end of June, capping a career spanning Cavaliers, Arizona State and Ohio University.
Four months after MSG Sports and the New York Rangers named Polymarket the official prediction market of the team, New York City-based Kalshi found its way into the famed arena with a deal to attach its brand to the building’s lower bowl concourse.
DraftKings' "Super App" combined prediction markets with online sportsbooks is a strategy that should cut down on acquisition costs while making it easy for gamblers to bet in any state. Also: Senate looks at integrity, and Kalshi lands in Madison Square Garden.
Sports betting is back on the congressional docket next week as a Senate Commerce subcommittee hears testimony Wednesday morning on integrity concerns associated with both traditional state-regulated sportsbooks and their more recent prediction market offshoot.
