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Read More »NFL Betting Week 15: Another Ravens rock fight
Yahoo fantasy football analyst Scott Pianowski reveals his weekly NFL betting ticket in his Throwing Darts column. Check out where he’s putting his jelly beans for Week 15. All lines courtesy of our friends at BetMGM. Last week was a clean 4-1 result, but everyone starts 0-0 in the new slate. Let’s keep the head down, keep grinding. If you want the full-season pick log, it’s linked at the bottom of the page. Our seasonal record now sits at 44-23-3 ATS. Ravens +2.5 at Browns I’m in… Source link
Read More »India asks Google to stop displaying online betting ads
BENGALURU (Reuters) – India has asked Google not to display surrogate ads of overseas betting companies, Mint newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing a person aware of the development in the ministry of information and broadcasting. The letter sent last week to Alphabet Inc’s Google India asked the company to immediately drop all advertising, direct or surrogate, from betting platforms like Fairplay, PariMatch, Betway in search results and YouTube, the report said. India’s planned regulation… Source link
Read More »Yahoo is betting on a clickbait powerhouse
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Read More »2022 World Cup set to kick off amid primetime for sports betting
FIFA is set to kick off its first winter World Cup on Sunday in Qatar. The schedule shift for the event, which is typically held in the summer, is presenting conflicts for sports fans at a busy time in the American sports calendar, and it may leave the world’s largest sporting event as an afterthought for sports gamblers. “If it was held in the summer months, in general [it would] be of wider interest,” PointsBet U.S. CEO Johnny Aitken told Yahoo Finance. “If there’s more interest, I… Source link
Read More »No evidence fighters or their teams acted irresponsibly or unethically as betting probe opens
Darrick Minner was stopped in the first round by Shayilan Nuerdanbieke on Saturday at UFC Vegas 64. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) About a month after a change in policy that banned UFC fighters and their close associates from betting on UFC fights, an investigation into irregular betting patterns involving a featherweight fight between Darrick Minner and Shayilan Nuerdanbieke on Saturday at Apex in Las Vegas on the main card of UFC Vegas 64 has begun, ESPN reported Sunday Nuerdanbieke won… Source link
Read More »California sports betting bills deemed ‘critical to the future of the entire industry’ likely to fail
The 2022 midterm elections had the potential to become one of the biggest days in the sports betting industry, which has been experiencing years of seemingly exponential growth in the market. But Tuesday will likely be when one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. gets a reality check, given that two ballot sports betting measures in California that are expected to fail. California voters will be asked to decide on Proposition 26, which would allow in-person sports gambling on tribal… Source link
Read More »UFC changes its athlete code of conduct policy to prohibit its fighters from betting on UFC events
The UFC sent a letter on Monday to its athletes advising them that it updated its athlete code of conduct policy that will now prohibit them and their close associates from wagering on UFC events. In the letter, Hunter Campbell, the UFC’s chief business officer, writes “In order to assist our athletes in understanding their obligations under the laws of the majority of states in which sports betting is permitted, and in further support of these integrity measures, UFC has incorporated a… Source link
Read More »Betting: NBA season futures preview
Ariel Epstein gives her best value plays for the upcoming 2022-23 NBA season. Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] ARIEL EPSTEIN: Welcome to Yahoo Sportsbook. I’m the Prop Queen, Ariel Epstein. All right, so we’ve got the NFL, Major League Baseball, hockey. Starting Tuesday, the NBA is back in action. That means you’ve got to get your futures bets in. I’m going to give you some value plays for the NBA futures market. I’m not saying here that these are the teams guaranteed to win. However, I do like… Source link
Read More »Short sellers betting against Cathie Wood’s ARK ETFs are up $2.4 billion this year
Traders betting against Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest have had a lucrative run this year. Shorting the firm’s family of eight exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has turned investors a mark-to-market profit of $2.4 billion so far in 2022 – more than twice the $941 million profit they made in all of last year, per figures from data analytics firm S3 partners. Of that gain, $492 million has been generated since mid-August, as technology stocks resumed a downslide amid renewed rate hike fears and… Source link
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