Is esports training and competition considered athletic competition? Many would argue that playing video games is not an athletic activity and some would claim to not care one way or the other. Apart from playing video games, internet also offers online casino games which are becoming more and more popular these days. You can play more than 700 casino games on 7sultans in different categories. You can play 7 sultans casino flash games for best online casino experience.Happy Walters of Catalyst Sports & Media and Chad Faulkner of Sports Academy care much more about the question than most. Each Walters…

Advocates of expanded sports betting suffered a setback yesterday when the acting Solicitor General recommended that the Supreme Court decline to hear New Jersey’s appeal in its challenge to the federal government. The recommendation substantially diminishes the odds that the high court will agree to hear the case, but the decision will only further ramp up pressure on sports leagues to address the issue and build momentum for a legislative solution, a panel of experts told the East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City on Wednesday. “I think the expectation was that the Justice Department would say ‘No you should…

The tide never turned for a daily fantasy sports bill in Alabama. As a result, DraftKings, FanDuel and the rest of the paid-entry fantasy sports industry is likely to continue to stay out of the state for the foreseeable future. The Alabama legislature adjourned its session on Friday night. That adjournment did not come with a vote in the state Senate on a bill (H 354) that would have legalized and regulated paid-entry fantasy in the state. There had been action on the bill on Wednesday — including amendments — but the bill never came up for a vote. Given…

A district court in California dealt a blow to FanDuel, DraftKings and other DFS operators last week when it held that the payment of entry fees to enter daily fantasy horse racing contests that are returned to winners as cash prizes constituted a wager. The court was handing down a preliminary ruling in a suit originally filed in December 2015 by racetrack and wagering business the Stronach Group against Kentucky-based Horse Racing Labs, LLC, operator of the Derby Wars website. Derby Wars was providing free and pay-to-play contests, with points accumulated based on the performance of horses in real races…

There is a long history of sports betting in the United Kingdom and with the explosion of sportsbooks on the Internet the gaming possibilities are endless. There are not only many reputable online sportsbooks, but land based betting shops and there are over 1,000 in London alone. When gambling online players can have direct registration without using a broker and they can also use a betting broker and a ton of information on both can be found at releasedbettor.co.uk. There is also much information pertaining to offshore bookmakers and betting on foreign, not based in the United Kingdom, sportsbooks. The…

Could the day come when fans are betting on NFL games while physically at the stadiums? Well, the new Las Vegas Raiders stadium — scheduled for completion in 2020 — sets up an interesting dynamic for gambling and the NFL. Namely, sports betting is legal in Nevada, while daily fantasy sports exists only in a limited fashion via the state’s existing gaming laws. Reporting from ESPN indicates that the state’s casinos and sports books expect mobile Nevada sports betting to be able to take place inside the Raiders’ stadium. That leaves the possibility that you could bet on games while…

No one has fully realized the potential that daily fantasy sports laws have opened up. Is that starting to change? So far, 12 states have passed laws that in some way legalize and/or regulate paid-entry fantasy sports. And more or are likely on the way. At the same time, there are several avenues for sports betting to become legal in the US. Those include: The possibility of the US Supreme Court finding that states can repeal their own sports betting laws, via the New Jersey sports betting case; Another state challenging the federal sports betting ban (PASPA) like New Jersey…

Fanduel has entered into a partnership with the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the sister league of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Under the deal the DFS brand will serve as the official one-day fantasy partner of the WNBA. FanDuel will launch the ‘Official One-Day Fantasy Game of the WNBA’, which will allow fans to compete against each other for daily WNBA prizes. The game, which will launch ahead of the new WNBA season that tips off this weekend, is available via their website, the FanDuel mobile application and the WNBA website. FanDuel will also launch the ‘WNBA Tip-Off Challenge’,…