Christian McCaffrey and the San Francisco 49ers will try to stop the Kansas City Chiefs from winning their third Super Bowl in five years.
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Oh, yeah, and there’s a game, too.
Billions of dollars are being bet on the matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs.
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What makes the NFL’s embrace of gambling so striking is that for most of its history, the league had pushed the government for stricter regulations – not more lenient ones.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky – Vasily Perov (1872).
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Dostoevsky’s sudden recovery from his gambling mania is an example of how a chance happening can change everything
Around 6% of college students have a gambling problem.
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The rise of sports betting has made gambling addiction a bigger issue on college campuses, but there are steps universities can take to address it.
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We found lobbying registers were hard to navigate and not detailed enough.
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Artificial intelligence and augmented reality tools are upping the stakes when it comes to online sports betting.
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Barely 2% of Australians or Americans use Bitcoin for its intended purpose: to buy things. Should we even call it a cryptocurrency?
No ifs or bits.
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It needs to be treated like the new class of assets that it is.
Peter Dutton delivers his budget reply in the House of Representatives.
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The bar was always too hard for Dutton. This week’s budget, whatever criticisms can be made of it, has been an elusive target for the Liberals
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The new UK white paper reforming the gambling laws for the digital age says nothing about one of the most concerning new developments in this field in the past 20 years.
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It’s important Australia doesn’t follow the ineffective voluntary approach to gambling marketing that the UK is taking.
Vampire Survivors won Best Game at the 2023 awards.
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Vampire Survivors distils the essence of compelling ‘just-one-more-go’ design to create an extremely satisfying game.
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Our research absolutely does not ‘state very clearly that cash has big advantages for gamblers’.
Americans are expected to bet $167 billion on sports in 2029.
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As sports betting becomes more prevalent, so do the risks to college athletes, gaming experts argue.
We interviewed 11- to 17-year-olds and they told us gambling advertising is so pervasive in their lives, it’s become normalised.
In a remarkable shift, pro sports leagues like the NFL have eagerly embraced gambling.
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With few regulations in place, gambling companies are going all-in to attract as many customers as possible – with younger, sports-obsessed and smartphone-savvy Americans particularly vulnerable.
Fans celebrate at the William Hill Sports Book in Atlantic City, N.J.
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Researchers who analyzed every sports bet placed online since 2018 found that young adults are the fastest-growing group of bettors, with more than 70% of them placing in-game bets.
Only about 10% of people with a gambling problem ever seek treatment.
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Treatment has a high success rate. Getting problem gamblers in the door – and getting them to complete a full course of therapy – is another matter.
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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has convinced his cabinet to back major pokie reforms, and they will be a vast improvement on the current situation.
Many young sports bettors think they’re knowledgeable enough to ‘beat the system.’
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In the past, typical clients tended to be retirees living on fixed incomes who played slots and card games.