iGaming Business – Sky Bet, the online gaming subsidiary of UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB, has admitted it had a “disastrous” first night of the 2013-14 Uefa Champions League club football competition. Punters enjoyed a successful night after many of the short-priced favourites won. Last year’s winner, German team Bayern Munich, started the 2013-14 edition of the competition with a 3-0 home win against Russian side CSKA Moscow. Elsewhere, English Premier League teams Manchester United and Manchester City recorded wins against Bayer Leverkusen and Viktoria Plzen respectively, while Spanish Liga giant Real Madrid also comfortably saw off Galatasaray 6-1 in Turkey….

ABC.net.au – The managing director of Swiss-based Sportradar says he doubts this investigation, or the number of prosecutions for match-fixing within sport, is high enough to effectively deter Asian syndicates from targeting Australia. “It’s an emerging market, in a negative way,” says Sportradar’s managing director of strategy and integrity Andreas Krannich, who cannot comment on the Victorian case for legal reasons. “They see that most sports are very vulnerable, they are clueless about how to handle it, they are clueless about sports betting.” Two of the players charged for allegedly fixing Victorian Premier League matches came from an English league…

NJ.com – Gov. Chris Christie vowed today to take the New Jersey’s case to legalize sports betting all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court after a three-member appellate panel dealt a setback to the state. The federal appeals court in Philadelphia handed down a 2-1 ruling today that New Jersey could not implement sports betting because the state’s new law conflicts with a federal statute that bans it in all but four states: Nevada, Delaware, Montana and Oregon. The state has the option of appealing the decision to the full Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, but Christie…

iGaming Business – UK political party the Liberal Democrats have backed a call to hand regional councils the power to limit the number of betting shops that can be opened within their local area. According to the UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, the party, which is the minority member of the coalition government, voted to curb the increase of bookmakers. The report said that Don Foster, local government minister, proposed the motion and will now be able to push for it to become law. The amended motion would allow councils to specify the number of betting shops that would be…

Daily Mail – A new book makes shocking new claims that ‘coked-up’ members of the New York Knicks’ 1981-1982 team fixed games for their drug dealer, who bet thousands of dollars on the team in the midst of their terrible season. Brian Tuohy’s new book, Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing and the FBI, cites FBI sources who said they investigated whether three members of the team – who were said to be ‘heavy users of cocaine’ – were involved in a point-shaving scheme to benefit their supplier, who is identified only as ‘one of the largest dealers on the…

Star-Telegram – A federal appeals court dealt another blow to New Jersey’s efforts to legalize sports gambling Tuesday, upholding a ruling that the state’s betting law conflicts with federal law and shouldn’t be implemented. The case was heard by a three-judge panel at the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, and the state could seek to have the case re-heard by the full appeals court. But Tuesday’s ruling more likely means New Jersey’s last chance to legalize sports gambling is to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. In March, U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp ruled…