Prominent streamer “xQc,” known for high stakes gambling, has faced a significant setback after losing a staggering $700,000 bet on Kamala Harris in the 2024 United States Presidential elections. In a video clip from his stream, xQc can be seen cashing out multiple bets on Harris to win — giving up his wager in exchange for keeping a tiny percentage of the amount bet.
Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones has offered to come to the rescue of a 68-year-old cafeteria worker who is sitting in jail for stealing $1.5 million of chicken wings.
Governing Tories, in a piece of spectacularly bad timing, has lost its director of campaigning as a probe into insider betting widens.
Two Ohio lawmakers are jumping into the fray to get famed Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
NBA All-Star Tyrese Haliburton decried the rise of legalized sports betting in the United States, lamenting how it has made fans harsh.
The former Jaguars employee who was convicted of stealing more than $22 million from the team has been hand six years in prison.
Super Bowl LVIII is already breaking records in the amount of money being laid on the line at sportsbooks all across the country.
Sports gambling giant FanDuel has denied a request from the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars to return the more than $20 million in funds.
An employee at a popular sports gambling site is no longer employed after it was determined he had cheated in a fantasy football contest on his company’s site.
With the Super Bowl scheduled to be played in Las Vegas this year, the NFL has released its new gambling restrictions and notably even bans players from playing slot machines in Sin City.
A father who went to jail for stealing more than £1 million from his company to gamble on sports is sharing his story to encourage gambling addicts to seek help.
The gambling boom in the state of New Jersey has been hurting the state’s economy, a new study has shown.
Politicians grasping for new tax revenue from gambling and pro sports teams looking for taxpayer supported new stadiums are expanding.
Calls to Ohio’s gambling helpline have tripled as state lawmakers embrace the sports betting craze, and the calls are remaining steady.
An unidentified slot machine player recently won more than $12 million from a casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A Las Vegas woman is facing grand larceny charges after she allegedly ditched her “sugar daddy” at a U2 concert to steal over $50,000 from his hotel safe.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Cornerback Isaiah Rodgers Sr. lost the biggest bet of his life Thursday.
A Texas mother is accused of leaving her young daughters at home for hours to go gambling and drinking.
Detroit Lions wide receiver and 2022 1st-round draft pick Jameson Williams is among five NFL players suspended for violating the league’s rules against gambling.
Legendary Cleveland broadcaster Bernie Kosar was fired on Sunday after the Browns found out he placed a $19,000 bet on the team.
Former Reds great Pete Rose has floated a last-ditch effort to get a lifetime ban lifted so he can be nominated to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
President Joe Biden was involved with a family gambling business venture in Latin America while he was vice president of the United States, a whistleblower revealed Monday.
A Caesars Palace blackjack dealer who has worked at the casino since its first year, dealing cards to many celebrities, officially retired on Wednesday.
The UK government has concluded that it will not regulate video game mechanics that have been linked to “problem gambling” by multiple studies, saying that it wants video game companies to self-regulate instead.
The government of Macau, which is the globe’s top gambling hub, locked down one of the city’s best-known hotels, the Grand Lisboa, on Tuesday after health officials detected over a dozen new Chinese coronavirus cases there, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
The government of Macau, a Chinese special administrative region and gambling hub, began shutting down most businesses and public spaces in the region on Sunday to contain a fresh outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, Xinhua News Agency reported.
The Atlanta Falcons’ Calvin Ridley has been suspended for the 2022 NFL season after accusations rose that he gambled on games.
ESPN has fired sports betting analyst Kelly Stewart before her first day over nine-year-old tweets that she had already acknowledged years ago
The Florida House approved the 2021 Gaming Compact between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis in a 97-17 vote on Wednesday.
Failed presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said he opposes Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) effort to change the gambling landscape in Florida.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reached an agreement with the state’s Seminole Tribe on Friday that would greatly expand gambling in the state, adding legalized sports wagering as that once mostly illegal activity continues to grow nationwide.
TAMPA, Fla. — A sports gambler faces up to five years in federal prison for threatening social media messages sent to players with the Tampa Bay Rays.
One man was killed, and at least three others were injured in a knife attack outside a New York City gambling den. The blood-soaked attack took place around 9:30 p.m. Friday on the sidewalk outside an illegal gambling den in
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A spot on the Atlantic City Boardwalk where movie stars, athletes and rock stars used to party — and a future president honed his instincts for bravado and hype — was reduced to a smoking pile of rubble on Wednesday.
Federal investigators should consider expanding their probe of Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) to examine his relationship with a South Carolina gambling mogul.
A study shows that Utah is the most independent state in America and Kentucky the least independent based on a set of metrics.
The Las Vegas strip began to breathe new life Thursday as some casinos started to reopen following a 78-day coronavirus lockdown.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Double down on Donald, or bet big on Biden? Plenty of Americans would like the chance to place a bet on the upcoming presidential election (and sports books would love to take their money), but so far, it is not legal anywhere in the country.
President Donald Trump pardoned former San Francisco 49ers wonder, Eddie Debartolo Jr., on Tuesday, the White House announced.
Pacman Jones cheated at the blackjack table and angrily confronted officers when they attempted to remove him. All of that was caught on camera and that footage has been obtained and released by TMZ.
