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The big bet

Inside America's online gambling boom

4 June 2024

  • Major League Baseball permanently banned Tucupita Marcano on Tuesday for betting on baseball and suspended four other players for one year after finding the players placed unrelated bets with a legal sportsbook.

    Tucupita Marcano’s ban puts fine point on MLB’s alliance with gambling

    Baseball’s partnerships with sportsbooks inundate viewers with ads for sports betting. Is it any wonder the San Diego Padres infielder ended up getting hit with a lifetime ban?

25 May 2024

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    ‘Gambling addiction on steroids’: fears of betting crisis at heart of US military

    Service members are more likely than the general public to become problem gamblers, but screening – and help – is lacking

24 May 2024

  • Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks are currently playing in the Western Conference finals

    Mark Cuban backs Biden. Why was he so keen to sell the Mavs to Trump megadonors?

    The Shark Tank star formed an unlikely partnership with the Adelson family. But like any successful entrepreneur he can be flexible when it suits

15 April 2024

  • Sports betting has become a multibillion dollar business in the US

    ‘It’s an addiction’: NBA’s ties to gambling trouble players past and present

    The league has forged close links to betting companies. But many worry about how such relationships will affect athletes and fans

24 March 2024

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    ‘At war with myself’: with gambling on the rise in the US, young addicts seek solace in an old program

    Inside Gambling Anonymous, the 12-step program offering compulsive gamblers help, and hope

22 March 2024

  • Shohei Ohtani, right, and his former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, were in Seoul for the start of the MLB season

    The Ohtani interpreter scandal reveals the grubby underbelly of sports betting

    Like every other US sports league, baseball pushes betting on its fans at every turn. Now its biggest star is associated with a gambling fiasco

21 March 2024

  • Tristen Newton’s UConn are among the betting favourites at the men’s NCAA Tournament

    Legal March Madness gambling generates $2.7bn - and plenty of abuse for players

    There will be more money riding on the NCAA tournament than ever before in 2024. But with higher stakes comes more pressure on the athletes

23 February 2024

  • Super Bowl LVIII - San Francisco 49ers v Kansas City Chiefs<br>LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 11: The Allegiant-Stadium general view inside the stadium prior to the Super Bowl LVIII match between San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Mario Hommes/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)

    Two-thirds of Super Bowl bets were illegal as black market thrives, report says

    About 228m bets placed on Super Bowl LVIII were on illegal platforms despite legalization, according to a new analysis

9 February 2024

  • Edith Langford

    As gambling addiction rates rise, keep an eye on grandma this Super Bowl

    Edith Langford
    Seniors with gambling addictions are often boomers who have attained the American dream and then lost

7 February 2024

  • The Super Bowl will take place in America’s gambling capital on Sunday

    The Super Bowl and gambling are locked in a tight and dangerous embrace

    Americans will stake $23bn on Sunday’s game as the NFL strengthens its ties with the gambling industry. Many are worried about the human costs

6 February 2024

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    Super Bowl expected to be biggest sports betting event in US history

    Tens of millions of Americans estimated to bet record $23.1bn on game as concern mounts over gambling addiction rates

29 January 2024

  • Fans in the stands cheer during a baseball game

    FanDuel owner Flutter lists in New York amid US gambling boom

    Gambling giant hails America as its ‘natural home’ and proposes primary listing in New York as US sports betting business surges

27 January 2024

  • A bill board for Draft Kings at a baseball stadium

    ‘Out of control’: Congresswoman sounds alarm over ‘unchecked’ gambling boom

    Andrea Salinas warns of ‘upstream problem’ in US mental health crisis and proposes tax revenue be used for treatment

4 January 2024

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    Gambling boom detrimental to New Jersey economy, report says

    Campaigners call for scrutiny of ‘gold rush’ after economists estimate gambling tax surge may be ‘roughly equal’ to social costs

9 December 2023

  • FanDuel signage at Yankee Stadium in New York.

    Top US betting firm lobbied against rules to protect young people and problem gamblers

    Exclusive: documents show FanDuel fought crackdown on ads near college campuses and ‘deceptive’ marketing

2 December 2023

  • Sepaker Vote Day 2<br>Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., reacts to a comment by Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., on the House floor before a vote in which House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., did not receive enough votes to become Speaker of the House on Wednesday, January 4, 2023.

    ‘There’s no limit’: one congressman’s solitary crusade to rein in sports betting

    Democrat Paul Tonko is pushing to halt a ‘public health crisis’ from engulfing the country – starting with a nationwide ban on ads

1 December 2023

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    ‘We’re killing the youth of America’: calls grow for crackdown on US gambling

    Worries that gambling addiction has spiked in the US as legal sports betting booms have led to calls for increased regulation
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