Baltimore Ravens Ink eSports Deal With EEG
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
2021 Super Bowl Sets New US Wager Record
This year’s Super Bowl legal betting handle has officially smashed last year’s figures. With ten states having punched in their results, the results currently available point to a phenomenal $420.1 million in total wagers acce...Read More
Shania Twain Celebrates Women At Super Bowl
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
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
Super Bowl Expected To Make Betting History
The upcoming February 7 Super Bowl LV (Las Vegas) is according to projections released by PlayUSA, about to become single most wagered on sports event in the U.S. According to early indications, U.S. bettors are expected to wager more tha...Read More
Amanda Gorman To Bring Poetry To Super Bowl
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
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
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
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
Vancouver’s Moth Influx No Cause For Panic
They’re not exactly butterflies and represent to many people somewhat of an “acquired taste” as far as in-house hospitality goes. And what’s worse – they’re literally all over Vancouver from seemingly o...Read More
Kansas City Bans Native US Imagery At Games
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
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
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
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
Miami Dolphins’ Don Shula Dies Aged 90
NFL legend and former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula has died. The 90-year old inspired terms like “winningest” being coined within the ranks of professional league football and is widely regarded as a man who helped write the...Read More
Rob Gronkowski To Trade Fox For Tom Brady
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
Former Vikings QB Tarvaris Jackson Has Died
Ex-NFL player and former Vikings QB Tarvaris Jackson, 36, died in a car crash on Sunday evening, Alabama authorities have confirmed. The former quarterback’s car had reportedly left the road whilst driving on Pike Road, which is abo...Read More
Tampa Bay Bucs Unveil New Colours
won’t be resembling orange creamy puff pies during his debut season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Bucs revealed their new attire on Tuesday, and fans no doubt let out a collective sigh of relief that the franchise won&rsq...Read More
New Orleans Saints Hero Tom Dempsey Has Died
Ex- record kicker and New Orleans Saints football hero Tom Dempsey has died from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel human Coronavirus. The 73-year-old, long-time NFL Saints sweetheart and the man whose 64-yard field goal remained u...Read More
NFL Sponsorships Driven By Gambling Industry
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
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
Fred Cox Has Died At The Age Of 80
Sad news this week is that the NFL’s Fred Cox has died at the age of 80. Cox is regarded as one of the very last of the “straight-on” placekickers and is an ex-Viking who played in no fewer than 4 Super Bowls. Fr...Read More
Vontaze Burfict Suspended For Helmet Bashing
The NFL has neither the time nor the tolerance for dirty behaviour on the field. This is something Oakland Raiders’ Vontaze Burfict would have been well-advised to keep in mind before he went about helmet-bashing Indianapolis Colts...Read More
NFL Shines Spotlight On Sports Betting Winning’s Tax
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
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
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
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
Gateway Concludes Significant NFL Deal
Gateway is kicking it up a notch on the entertainment front and has entered into partnership with the NFL. According to the terms of the deal, Gateway will leverage its own appeal as well as that of Canada’s National Football League...Read More
Football Legend Bart Starr Dies Aged 85
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
First Global Poker Awards A Golden Success
20 Trophies awarded to the absolute cream of the Poker world. And the legendary Aria in Las Vegas the charming host venue. Does there even exist anything more fanciful that that? It all went down on April 5 when the very first Global Poke...Read More
New Limitations On Children’s Football Enforced
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
WSOP Kicks Out Catherine Valdes
Social media celebrity Catherine “catrific” Valdes has expressed her deep dissatisfaction at the manner in which she was allegedly treated on the weekend by a World Series of Poker official at the World Series of Poker Bally&r...Read More
NFL’s Adam Jones Behind Bars for Cheating At A Casino
The Rising Sun Casino in Indiana is the reason behind NFL player Adam “Pacman”
Jones having had to spend a night behind bars, following accusations on the part of the casino’s management that Jones had been cheatin...Read More
YouTubers Slammed for Promoting Gambling
A few decades ago, children and teens occupied themselves with television programs, video games, and good old-fashioned outdoor fun. However, as times have changed, even the youth of today have turned to media platforms like YouTube to ge...Read More
Restaurant Bingo Hits Instagram
It’s easy to see why bingo and social media are a match made in heaven. While the game is highly social in nature and also extremely versatile, websites like Facebook and Instagram have enough of a following to take the pastime to n...Read More
American Sports Gambler The Most Influential Person Of 2018
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
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
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
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 Associ...Read More
NFL to Allow Casino Sponsors
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 brea...Read More
NFL Players Protest During Pre-Season Anthems
The NFL pre-season games have just kicked off, and the National Anthem protests are back. Players from the Seahawks, Eagles and Dolphins demonstrated during the national anthem at a number of NFL pre-season games last Thursday night. In ...Read More
NFL Titans Star Tackles Bingo
Laurence Gibson, Offensive Tackle for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans, does not have much experience with Bingo. But he nonetheless delighted the residents of Landon Ridge, an Assisted Living and Memory-Care facility in Kingwood, Texas, ...Read More