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On Feb. 6, 2024, the American Gaming Association estimated that a record 68 million Americans would wager a total of $23.1 billion on this year’s Super Bowl. Nearly six years after a Supreme Court ruling paved the way for legal sports betting in the U.S., leagues are seeing a spike in sports betting scandals that are raising questions about the integrity of the game. One of the MLB’s biggest stars, Shohei Otani, is involved in a major gambling investigation after
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2 years ago Read more at NewsNation Now

In his guest essay, “Hey, Losers! Here’s How to Bring Baseball’s Very Boring Era to an End” Rafi Kohan makes an argument for bringing trash talk back to baseball. At the most basic level, talking trash raises the stakes of a competitive confrontation. It puts more on the line — like pride and possible humiliation — and that makes the outcome of the contest matter more than it otherwise would.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

Northwest Missouri State University head men’s basketball coach Ben McCollum has been selected for induction into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Enshrinement is set for May 19 at 1 p.m. at Union Station in Kansas City. The Kansas City Royal Eric Hosmer and Kansas City Chief Casey Wiegmann are inducting the Class of 2024.
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2 years ago Read more at The Storm Lake Times Pilot

The Woodman's Sports and Convention Center will be at Janesville's Uptown Mall. The center will include a 1,500-seat ice arena, another multipurpose arena, and 26,000 square feet of space for both trade shows and events. There will also be basketball, volleyball and pickleball courts, as well as locker rooms and concessions.
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2 years ago Read more at Spectrum News 1

The NCAA tournament games continued with the Sweet 16 on Thursday, March 28: Selection Sunday: 6 p.m. ET Sunday, March 17 on CBS First Four. Click or tap on each game to be taken to the live streams. Here is the game-by-game schedule for the 2024 men's tournament.
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2 years ago Read more at NCAA.com

1962 – Bill Russell sets an NBA Finals record by hauling in 40 rebounds, but the Celtics still lose to the St. Louis Hawks 113-103. 1982 – Michael Jordan hits a jumper with 16 seconds left to give North Carolina a 63-62 win over Georgetown to capture the NCAA title. 1990 – Hakeem Olajuwon becomes the third player in NBA history to record a quadruple-double. 1994 – Jimmy Johnson resigns as
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2 years ago Read more at Region Sports Network

In the first sign of movement on the planned Tower Park at Hemisfair, the organization is planning to construct a “Sports Court” pavilion in place of the pond at the base of the structure. The organization says it has the philanthropic support to fund the construction.
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2 years ago Read more at KSAT San Antonio

I think the only year we’ve skipped was 2020, when COVID-19 shut down the tournament a week or so before the scheduled tipoff. The first round has thirty-two games to bet on, and tradition is tradition, I guess. These digital changes bring a veneer of respectability. It just means the action is controlled by people with deeper pockets and greater influence.
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2 years ago Read more at The New Yorker

The U.S. sports betting industry launched with relatively few guardrails. It all unfolded in a very American way, with deep-pocketed corporate interests and politicians who either misunderstood or ignored realistic estimates about tax revenue when crafting legislation. I’d like to see more funding and staffing for responsible gaming initiatives, and tighter know-your-customer rules.
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2 years ago Read more at Sportico

The collisions between politics, culture, and sport mandate that we unpack sport, make meaning out of sport, and understand that when athletes take to the court, the pitch, and the field, they bring with them who they are and what they believe in. While “stick to sport” may be a mantra trotted out by critics who think athletes should only operate within the parameters of the games they play, sticking to sport — and all that actually comes with it — can tell us everything we need to know about the world we
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2 years ago Read more at UMass News and Media Relations