Tom Brady’s Return Results In Suspicious Betting

Ben Hamill - March 20, 2022

Tom Brady is back from retirement, though some were not as surprised as they perhaps should have been. The star player’s return was highly speculated about leading up to the Super Bowl LVII, but there was never any certainty that his ...Read More

Baltimore Ravens Ink eSports Deal With EEG

Ben Hamill - February 17, 2021

A second NFL team has just struck a multi-year partnership deal in association with eSports. The Baltimore Ravens’ deal with eSports Entertainment Group (EEG) follows a similar agreement inked by the Philadelphia Eagles. Announced ...Read More

Shania Twain Celebrates Women At Super Bowl

Ben Hamill - February 10, 2021

Canadian superstar songstress Shania Twain this year celebrates the 26th anniversary of the release of her smash-hit “The Woman in Me” album, which sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Featuring smash hits like, &...Read More

DraftKings And NFL Moving Into Canada

Ben Hamill - February 09, 2021

DraftKings, the official daily fantasy sports partner of the National Football League (NFL), is taking its operations north of the border to Canada. Forged back in September 2019, the partnership’s operations were until now restrict...Read More

Amanda Gorman To Bring Poetry To Super Bowl

Ben Hamill - February 03, 2021

2021 certainly is turning out to be a year of many firsts for young poet Amanda Gorman. Not only is the 22-year-old Harvard graduate America’s first Youth Poet Laureate, but she’ll soon become the first poet ever to perform th...Read More

NFL Rolls Out Seven-Point Mobility Plan

Ben Hamill - December 21, 2020

Initially adopted by the NFL in 2003, the recently expanded diversity hiring-focused Rooney Rule has seen a much smaller share of successes than what it has witnessed a system lacking actual bite. But the league hopes to change all of tha...Read More

Quebec NFL Star Named Sportsperson Of The Year

Ben Hamill - December 08, 2020

A Canadian NFL star is one of five athletes named 2020 Sportsperson of the Year: The Activist Athlete by Sports Illustrated. Chiefs lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who is currently working to fulfil the remaining requirements to become a...Read More

Chase Claypool Makes NFL History

Ben Hamill - September 23, 2020

The man who on Sunday aced the longest Touch Down from scrimmage in the history of the NFL – an 84-yard touchdown reception – is no one other than Abbotsford, B.C. native Chase Claypool. In only his second career game played ...Read More

Kansas City Bans Native US Imagery At Games

Ben Hamill - August 28, 2020

Kansas City supporters and fans will no longer be permitted to don headdresses, face paint, and/or clothing in any way associated with Native American groups and cultures, the NFL team announced on Thursday. The team said by way of a stat...Read More

NFLPA & GVC Launch Betting Education Program

Ben Hamill - July 24, 2020

The NFL Players Association (NFLPA) is launching an initiative focused on creating a better understanding of what sports betting is about, how it functions alongside the professional sports world, and why, now that more and more US states...Read More

New England Fined For Illegal Film Scandal

Ben Hamill - June 30, 2020

New England coach Bill Belichick has denied having at any point as much as laid eyes on the video footage that has now resulted in the Patriots having been fined US$1.1 million by the NFL, along with a third-round pick penalty in the 2021...Read More

NFL Owners Vote Yes To Expanded Rooney Rule

Ben Hamill - May 21, 2020

The on Tuesday passed what is possibly one of the most important votes that can be passed by any business, sport-focused or otherwise, which is to improve opportunities for minorities to be appointed in executive positions. In the case o...Read More

Rob Gronkowski To Trade Fox For Tom Brady

Ben Hamill - April 23, 2020

The show isn’t over for retired NFL footballer Rob Gronkowski. The 30-year-old former Patriots tight-end caused quite the stir when on Tuesday afternoon he made the shock announcement that he is officially coming out of retirement. ...Read More

NFL Sponsorships Driven By Gambling Industry

Ben Hamill - February 05, 2020

The NFL is nothing short of a royal cash cow. This is also the biggest reason behind its 32 football franchises having attracted in excess of $1.47 billion in sponsorship revenue for the period 2019-2020 alone. That’s a single seas...Read More

NFL Suspends Josh Shaw For Betting On Sports

Ben Hamill - December 03, 2019

Arizona Cardinals defenceman Josh Shaw has been suspended for betting. The NFL recently issued a formal statement providing details around the suspension, reiterating yet again that no action threatening the integrity ...Read More

NFL Shines Spotlight On Sports Betting Winning’s Tax

Ben Hamill - September 10, 2019

The old adage yet again rings proverbially true, and this time round for the global sports betting industry. There are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. And if you’re one of the millions of bettors expec...Read More

Buffalo Bills 5th Casino-Sponsored NFL Team

Ben Hamill - September 05, 2019

The NFL’s New York-based Buffalo Bills have become the 5th NFL team to clinch a casino sponsorship deal. The tribal-owned Seneca Resorts and Casinos is officially the team’s first casino partner ever. The NFL in Se...Read More

New Jersey Leads The Sports Betting Race

Ben Hamill - September 03, 2019

The old adage rings true: the more things change, the more they stay the same. New Jersey is fast establishing itself as the overall winner in the US sports betting race after having yet again out-performed close rival...Read More

NFL Joins Forces With Jay-Z’s Roc Nation

Ben Hamill - August 19, 2019

There’s almost always room for a spot of social activism, no matter where or how you look at things. And so the news that music super-star Jay-Z’s Roc Nation will in future be partnering up with the NFL in order to...Read More

Football Legend Bart Starr Dies Aged 85

Ben Hamill - June 03, 2019

Life and health just wasn’t the same after former Green Bay Packer star quarterback Bart Starr’s life-changing strokes and heart attack back in 2014. Bart Starr, confirmed his family and former team, has passed awa...Read More

New Limitations On Children’s Football Enforced

Ben Hamill - April 13, 2019

Most of us have, thanks to the widespread publicity enjoyed by the topic, over the last couple of years become familiar with the term “concussion controversy” when talking Football. Like it or not,  players are hi...Read More

American Sports Gambler The Most Influential Person Of 2018

Ben Hamill - January 03, 2019

In a turn of events that is nothing short of astounding, mind-blowing even, the collective representative the “American Sports Gambler” has been named the most influential person of the year by top media publicatio...Read More

Former NFL Players Now Pro-Curling Hopefuls

Ben Hamill - December 06, 2018

It just goes to show once again; once professional sports are in your blood, there’s no shaking it off. Just ask former NFL star Jared Allen who, thanks to having lost a seemingly innocent bet with a friend, now find...Read More

Former players who now own sports teams

Ben Hamill - October 27, 2018

Having enjoyed a career in professional sport, many ex-players simply move into a different kind of job. Nevertheless, many opt to continue inside their sport by taking on the role of coach or manager. And for the lucky few able to afford t...Read More

NFL’s Sports Betting Revenues Set to Soar

Ben Hamill - September 09, 2018

The National Football League’s revenues are apparently set to soar by more than $2.3 billion per year thanks to the recently . The news comes according to a recent Nielsen Sports study, which was commissioned by the American Gaming As...Read More

NFL to Allow Casino Sponsors

Ben Hamill - September 06, 2018

Over the border in the US, the with its decision to lift a long-time ban on gambling advertising and finally allow land-based casinos a chance to sponsor up to 32 of the teams under the National Football League umbrella. The ground breakin...Read More