For the second straight year, Connecticut is squarely in the middle of the toughest set of teams. ...
20 March 2024
By Case Keefer
The stylistic divide couldn’t be more stark between the top two seeded teams in the South and their next two challengers. ...
20 March 2024
By Case Keefer
Some of the earliest NCAA Tournament bracket projections, made at the outset of the season, had three teams that wound up in the Midwest Region as No. 1 seeds. ...
19 March 2024
By Case Keefer
Shootouts appropriately seem to be what will ultimately settle the wild-looking West Region this year. ...
19 March 2024
By Case Keefer
Tom Mikulich began working in the Las Vegas hospitality industry as a teenager as a desk clerk at his grandparents’ hotel on Fremont Street, the Ambassador. In the decades since, he’s climbed up the industry ladder—working ...
18 March 2024
By Katie Ann McCarver
The betting favorite prevailed in only a little more than a fourth of the conference tournaments — nine out of 34. ...
17 March 2024
By Case Keefer
A gambler hit a $1 million slot machine jackpot this week at a Las Vegas Strip casino. The big win happened Monday in the high-limit lounge at the Palazzo, part of the Venetian resort. The player, who wanted to ...
13 March 2024
By Las Vegas Sun Staff
The future of online gambling will be more social, more engaged with players and more targeted to their individual interests, an industry panel said Thursday. Speaking at the Next.io conference on internet gambling and ...
7 March 2024
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
America's commercial casinos won $66.5 billion from gamblers in 2023, the industry's best year ever, according to figures released by its national trade ...
20 February 2024
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
I’m ecstatic to relaunch Weekend Wagers for a fifth consecutive year. Weekend Wagers is mostly about sports happening currently, and I’ve got bets lined up on five events happening ...
17 February 2024
By Case Keefer
Online betting on the Super Bowl surged this year, with many gamblers waiting until right before the kickoff to place their wagers, according to a company that ...
12 February 2024
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
The over 47.5 points is drawing as large of a share of tickets as Chiefs +2, and yet it hasn’t budged much at all. At least one large global sportsbook ...
10 February 2024
By Case Keefer
The Super Bowl is poised to have a higher handle than any other iteration of the game in Nevada’s sports betting history, experts say. The state set its Super Bowl handle record in 2022, when $179 million was bet in Nevada on the ...
8 February 2024
By Katie Ann McCarver
Atlantic City's casinos have no legal obligation to stop compulsive gamblers from betting, a judge ruled, dismissing a lawsuit from a self-described problem gambler who accused the Borgata and its parent company ...
5 February 2024
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
The overwhelming consensus from those in the local sports-betting industry is that the, “Big Game,” being held here on Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium will contribute to a new all-time high in betting handle. ...
2 February 2024
By Case Keefer