The state of Michigan is the latest hoping to extend its gambling sector into sports betting. An organization called “Michigan Is Yours” has backed a proposal that would allow seven additional casinos to be built in the state, the Associated Press…

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Handicapping, in sport and games, is the practice of assigning advantage through scoring compensation or other advantage given to different contestants to equalize the chances of winning. The word also applies to the various methods by which the advantage is calculated. In principle, a more experienced player is disadvantaged in order [...]

Belgrade – Serbian police said Wednesday that they arrested two men suspected of running an unregistered internet betting site. The arrests are the first-ever in connection with online betting and lottery, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. …

The New Zealand TAB will offer various betting opportunities on the annual Golden Shears Shearing Championship to be held in Masterton, 3-6 March 2010.

The state of New Jersey passed a bill to legalize online sports betting on Monday, reported Gambling911.com . The resolution, SR19, was voted on and approved by a committee and now will go through a debate process in the New Jersey Senate. No date…

Betting site Bodog.com has listed their odds for the current season of “American Idol,” with early frontrunner Andrew Garcia projected as the winner with 4-1 odds.

There is still one group that believes in Canada’s men’s hockey team. Or, to be precise, there is one group that believes the betting public will still believe in Canada’s men’s hockey team: online sports gambling sites.

Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — Louis Bacon’s $14.6 billion Moore Capital Management LP told investors it isn’t betting on a Greek default because European authorities will probably bail out the country.

Sports Interaction betting analyst Frank Doyle looks back at the weekend College Basketball action. Kentucky’s visit to Vanderbilt was the biggest game of the weekend for us, no question. It was always going to be that way, as it was an ideal c…

AP Photo/Steve RuarkDave Miller, right, of Lewes, Del. watches horse races at the new sports book parlor at Dover Downs casino in Dover, Del. in September after a federal appeals court ruled that Delaware can offer parlay betting, but not…

Racing Victoria will investigate claims of suspicious betting activity surrounding jockey Danny Nikolic.

Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — The New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. may have to shut down in March if the state Legislature doesn’t change the way revenue from horserace-wagering parlors is distributed, the operation’s chairman said in court.

Strandhill Golf Club in Ireland is an example of a coastal links course.
The rules of golf [1] [2] are internationally standardised and are jointly governed by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A), which was founded 1754 and the United States Golf Association (USGA). By agreement with [...]

Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — Ladbrokes Plc , the U.K. bookmaker founded in 1886, said full-year profit dropped 63 percent as customers stayed away from its betting shops in the recession.

Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — Ladbrokes Plc , the U.K. owner of about 2,600 betting shops, plans to extend the maturity of its debt by buying back 250 million pounds ($390 million) of 7.125 percent notes due 2012 and selling new bonds due 2017.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The next round of betting is near in a high-stakes game to tighten U.S. financial regulation and Democrats are wagering heavily on a hunch — that some Republicans cannot afford politically to block reform.

Worldspreads Group says its UK subsidiary Worldspreads Limited has signed an exclusive deal with Ladbrokes to provide its financial spread betting service to Ladbrokes’ global customers.

If you’ve got a car and a bicycle, do you need a motorcycle too? Wireless carriers are betting that you do. They’re making a big push this year for the motorcycles of the gadget world: devices that are bigger than a phone but smaller than a laptop.

John Paulson, the most successful, high-profile hedge fund manager of the last several years maintained a massive position in gold in his end-of-2009 portfolio and added to a large stake in Citigroup.