BBC – Former international striker Kevin Kyle says gambling on football games is widespread among Scottish players. Kyle’s claims follow the Scottish FA’s notice of complaint against Rangers’ Ian Black for allegedly breaching regulations on football betting. “It’s just the culture we are in,” the free agent, 32, told BBC Scotland. “Gambling is rife within football. “If you go into any football team in Scotland, the majority of players will be putting on coupons each week.” Kyle, who played with Black at Rangers and Hearts as well as having spells at Kilmarnock, Coventry and Sunderland, admits to having had a…

iGaming Business – Digital sports media company Perform Group has agreed a three-year deal to renew its mobile and web clip production partnership with the English Premier League football competition. The deal, which came into effect at the start of the current 2013-2014 season, extends a partnership between the two parties that stretches back to 2007. Perform will continue to produce and distribute “near live” match highlights and features for the league. This will include ingesting, editing and encoding video clips of all 380 matches per season, before distributing them to the league’s network of more than 40 web and…

English Premier League football club Arsenal has agreed a deal for online gaming website Bodog to become its official Asian betting partner. Exact terms of the partnership were undisclosed but the club confirmed it to be a “multi-million pound deal” running for three years, from 2013-14 to 2015-16. Under the agreement, Bodog will be able to generate content and implement marketing drives using Arsenal first-team players, while accessing the club’s database to provide fans in Asia with tailored betting offers around matches. Arsenal enjoyed a successful 2013 pre-season tour to Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan, and Bodog will look to capitalize…

Princess Irina Walker involved in cockfighting? The daughter of the last king of Romania, was hobnobbing two years ago with European royalty in Bucharest to celebrate the 90th birthday of her regal father. On Friday, she and her husband — a former Oregon sheriff’s deputy — are expected to appear in court to face charges of running a cockfighting business on their ranch in Eastern Oregon. Government prosecutors say Irina and John Walker staged at least 10 cockfighting derbies between April 2012 and April 2013, bringing in as much as $2,000 a day. Blades were attached to the birds’ legs,…

iGaming Business – Jimmy Vaccaro has left his role at William Hill US, a subsidiary of UK bookmaker William Hill, to take control of the race and sports marketing division at Las Vegas-based South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa. According to LineMakers.com, the position was created especially for Vaccaro, who held a similar role at William Hill before his exit. In his new job, Vaccaro will look after South Point’s new mobile phone app that allows customers to place sports wagers from anywhere within the US state of Nevada. Vaccaro said: “In the next three years, there will be a…

CBS News DFW – It was more than a decade in the making, but local and federal officials announce they busted a sports betting ring that handled more than 5-billion dollars. It started with an anonymous letter to Plano police. ‪ A Plano undercover officer spent years peeling back the layers of what turned out to be a sports gambling scheme with international connections — and some bettors placing incredible wagers. “Six or seven figures; and obviously we are in the big time here,” said John Bales, US Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas. How big? Authorities confiscated stacks of…