Sports Betting News

Legal sports betting took a step forward through the legal pipelines in South Dakota this week after a House panel advanced Senate Joint Resolution 501. This resolution will place the question of sports betting in the state on the 2020 general election ballot.  It wasn’t an easy win for the resolution to advance in the […]

A new survey shows that the majority of New Yorkers want to see legal online sports betting allowed in the state. Some 61% of those polled stated that adults should be allowed to place bets on sports online. The Parkside Group and Anzalone Liszt Grove Research ran the poll, which was commissioned by two of […]

Yesterday, the office of Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut issued a statement, showing support for a stand-alone sports betting bill. This bill allows several entities to get a piece of the lucrative sportsbook pie, including the Connecticut Lottery, the betting vendor, Sportech and more notably, the Mashantucket Pequot and the Mohegan tribes. The governor’s director […]

New York-listed Scientific Games and BoyleSports have upgraded the Irish bookmaker’s screen solution from legacy technology to Promote, the screen solution from the OpenEngage range of services offered under the supplier’s OpenSports platform. The upgrade to Promote will see BoyleSports, Ireland’s largest bookmaker, receiving cutting-edge screen management solutions that enable them to present their sports […]

New York-listed Scientific Games and BoyleSports have upgraded the Irish bookmaker’s screen solution from legacy technology to Promote, the screen solution from the OpenEngage range of services offered under the supplier’s OpenSports platform. The upgrade to Promote will see BoyleSports, Ireland’s largest bookmaker, receiving cutting-edge screen management solutions that enable them to present their sports […]

The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (European Leagues) has extended its partnerships with data providers Sportradar, Stats Perform and Genius Sports that were originally formed in 2017, that will see the three companies gaining official access to in-stadia positions for the live collection of data to then provide to their betting operator customers. Leagues […]

Spanish professional football league, LaLiga, has entered into its first partnership deal in South Africa with local sports betting company Hollywoodbets. In terms of the new deal signed by the parties at an exclusive press conference the Durban-based organization has become the official LaLiga Betting Partner in South Africa until the end of the 2019/20 […]

PointsBet, one of the world’s leading sports betting operators, has revealed that it has entered into a multi-year partnership deal that will see it become the 11th Authorized Sports Betting Operator of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In terms of the partnership, PointsBet will integrate the first-ever Win Probability Metric across a number of NBA […]

Scientific Games (SG) has announced that it has signed a Sports Betting Supply Deal with American betting Group Golden Nugget, in terms of which it will provide its solutions, including OpenGaming and OpenSports to the casino operator across multiple states. The agreement between the parties will run through 2024 (and possibly beyond) and will cover […]

SIS (Sports Information Services), a provider of content and production services to betting shops in the United Kingdom, Ireland and other worldwide destinations, has entered into a deal with several leading bookmakers to distribute live pictures and data from this month’s Saudi Cup – the world’s most valuable horse race. Among the operators to have […]