People look at OpenBet sports betting venue products at the Scientific Games booth during the Global Gaming Expo in 2018 in Las Vegas.
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The rise of sports betting, fuelled by the proliferation of online platforms and the legalization of gambling in many areas, has brought new complexities to the world of sports.
These CCNY basketball players, arrested for bribery in 1951, weren’t happy to see a photographer in the station house.
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The US has a long history of sports betting scandals.
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While for some, gambling might be a source of entertainment, for others, it can lead to significant harms.
Some college students have gambled away their financial aid.
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The legalization and ease of online sports betting is fueling a rise in gambling disorders among young people.
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A 2023 federal government inquiry recommended a ban on gambling advertising. What needs to happen should a ban be implemented?
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When the US Supreme Court legalized sports betting, states were quick to get in on the action. But as lawmakers grow reliant on taxes from betting, what do they owe problem gamblers?
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.