US Congress is planning to host a hearing on sports betting next week, with the NFL American football league among those reportedly invited to testify. The move comes after the Supreme Court last month voted to overturn the federal 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). PASPA had blocked more states from regulating sports betting, but since last month’s ruling, a number of states have passed legislation and began accepting legal sports wagers. Delaware became the first state to legalise sports betting post-PASPA earlier this month, while New Jersey, which led the effort to overturn PASPA, last week also…

Online betting in Australia has become so prevalent that almost 80% of the Australians gamble at least once every year. According to the reports of The Economist, Australian adults gamble more per capita income than any other nation in the world. This made some of the world’s top online gambling sites to focus on the booming Australian market. So let’s take a look at the shape of online betting in Australia and see what it has to offer the betting enthusiasts. Is Online Betting Legal in Australia? In the past, Australian punters were allowed to enjoy any form of online…

Disgruntled Masses Over Paddy Power Polar Bear Paddy Power is in hot water at the moment and has been called all sorts of derogatory words. Why? Because they decided to create yet another controversial advertising stunt… even if it was in the name of bringing awareness to an important issue: Climate change and it’s effect on polar bears. Paddy Power published a wraparound ad featuring a polar bear with St George’s Cross sprayed on her side. This, of course, raised an immediate media storm where people were ready to storm their castle with pitchforks and torches. The ad was fake,…

U.S. sports teams are clamoring for sponsorship deals with British bookmaker William Hill as legal sports betting starts to take off in the United States, the chief executive of the company’s American division told Reuters on Wednesday. Since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in May that flung open the doors to legal sports wagering across the country, the company has been “inundated” with emails and phone calls from teams looking to do sponsorship deals, said Joseph Asher, CEO of William Hill U.S. Asher’s remarks come as sports betting gets set to expand nationwide in states that agree to…

The National Indian Gaming Association, tribal leaders, and gaming representatives came together to conduct the “Preparing for Sports Betting: Tribal Gaming Consideration after Murphy v. NCAA,” panel at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Mid-Year Conference at the Marriott in Kansas City, Missouri last week. The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down a law that made sports betting illegal in most states. This decision has implications for tribes and states as they consider authorizing sports betting in their jurisdictions.  This session, moderated by Debbie Thundercloud, Chief of Staff at NIGA provided tribal leaders the opportunity to hear about what to…

Mississippi is about to get a taste of sports betting action, thanks to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, which hopes to roll out the product in the near future. The Clarion Ledger reported that the Choctaw Tribal Council approved betting at the Silver Star Hotel and Casino, Golden Moon Hotel and Casino, and Bok Homa Casino on May 31. The Choctaws may go down in U.S. history as the first Native American Tribe to offer sports betting should things go as planned, according to the tribe’s officials. Unlike in other states, the Choctaws don’t need the approval of the…