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Weekend wagers: A bunch of bets including three on UFC 303

The Florida Panthers celebrate with the NHL hockey Stanley Cup after winning the Final against the Edmonton Oilers in Sunrise, Fla., Monday, June 24, 2024.

The local NHL Draft, which started Friday at Sphere, got everyone thinking about the outlook of the league next year. ...

29 June 2024
By Case Keefer

Weekend wagers: Six bets on six different sports

Texas A&M pitcher Ryan Prager (18) in action during an NCAA College World Series baseball game against Kentucky on Monday, June 17, 2024, in Omaha, Neb. Texas A&M won 5-1.

Tennessee sits as a -200 (i.e. risking $200 to win $100) favorite to beat Texas A&M in the College World Series when the best-of-three championship series begins at 4:30 p.m. tonight in Omaha, Neb. ....

22 June 2024
By Case Keefer

Weekend wagers: Eight bets to make on seven sports

Texas A&M infielder Ted Burton (27) makes a catch at first for out in game two of the series between Arkansas and Texas A&M on Friday, May 17, 2024 at Blue Bell Park in College Station. (Meredith Seaver/College Station Eagle via AP)

Sports betting’s legalized, nationwide expansion and subsequent popularity boom over the last six years has resulted in the emergence of some niche markets becoming more widespread. ...

1 June 2024
By Case Keefer

New Sunset Station sportsbook has ‘something for everyone,’ exec says

The newly renovated STN Sportsbook at Sunset Station in Henderson.

Former NFL running back Napoleon McCallum was all smiles this morning as he placed his inaugural bet at Sunset Station’s newly renovated STN Sportsbook. His first bet? “My first bet was for the Raiders to win the Super Bowl,” said McCallum, an alumnus of the team. “And the second bet was for the Raiders to beat the ...

16 May 2024
By Katie Ann McCarver

Culinary Union strikes against Virgin Hotels for higher wages

Culinary Union workers picket outside of Virgin Hotels Las Vegas during a 48-hour strike on Friday, May 10, 2024.

More than 100 workers picketed outside Virgin Hotels this morning for higher wages as the Culinary Union staged its first strike in Las Vegas in 22 years. “No contract, no peace,” the workers chanted as ...

10 May 2024
By Ayden Runnels

Former Las Vegas casino executive to be sentenced in bookmaking money laundering case

Resorts World Las Vegas President Scott Sibella looks over elephant statues during the North American Elephant Parade kick-off at Resorts World Las Vegas Wednesday, May 25, 2022.

A former top executive for major Las Vegas casinos was set to appear before a federal judge Wednesday after admitting he allowed an illegal bookmaker to gamble millions of ...

8 May 2024
By Christopher Weber and Ken Ritter, Associated Press

Study links sports betting with binge drinking

Friends discuss their bets in the restaurant at the Meadowlands Racetrack, which houses FanDuel Sportsbook, a legal sports-betting venue, in East Rutherford, N.J., Sept. 9, 2018. On several Saturdays in September, there were hourslong lines outside the sports book. Some people couldn’t even place bets before game time. So the sports book expanded, moving upstairs and taking up the second floor. Turns out New Jersey really enjoys sports betting.

A new study shows that sports bettors are more likely to binge drink than individuals who are not gambling at all or who are gambling in another way. The study from UNLV and the University of ...

29 April 2024
By Katie Ann McCarver

Adam Silver says gambling probe of Toronto's Jontay Porter could lead to banishment from league

In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks at a news conference before an NBA preseason basketball game between the Houston Rockets and the Toronto Raptors in Saitama, near Tokyo.

Toronto's Jontay Porter could face expulsion from the league if the gambling-related accusations against him are found to be true, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday. Silver, speaking after a two-day meeting of ...

10 April 2024
By Brian Mahoney, Associated Press

Opponents of smoking in casinos try to enlist shareholders of gambling companies in non-smoking push

A gambler lights a cigarette at a slot machine in Harrah's casino in Atlantic City N.J. on Sept. 29, 2023.

Add investors to the list of people that opponents of smoking in casinos are enlisting in hopes of banning the practice. A national non-smoking group and a ...

10 April 2024
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press

NCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of UConn vs. Purdue

UConn guard Stephon Castle (5) dunks over Alabama forward Grant Nelson (2) during the second half of the NCAA college basketball game at the Final Four, Saturday, April 6, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz.

Donovan Clingan stood out as the most impactful two-way player on the floor in the night cap of Saturday’s national semifinal games in Glendale, Ariz., just as ...

8 April 2024
By Case Keefer

Hornbuckle’s Hall of Fame rise began at UNLV

MGM Resorts International president and CEO Bill Hornbuckle addresses the crowd after being inducted into the Nevada Business Hall of Fame in a ceremony on the campus of UNLV, hosted by Lee Business School on Thursday, April 4, 2024.

Bill Hornbuckle remembers being a community college student in Connecticut when he saw a commercial advertising UNLV’s hospitality college during a broadcast of a UNLV basketball game.

8 April 2024
By Grace Da Rocha

NCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of the Final Four

UConn center Donovan Clingan (32) goes to the basket against Northwestern forward Blake Preston during the first half of a second-round college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament, Sunday, March 24, 2024, in New York.

An all-time evenly-matched Sweet 16 a week ago has given way to a historically lopsided Final Four by the betting odds. Connecticut and Purdue are favored by a combined 20.5 points over Alabama and NC State ...

6 April 2024
By Case Keefer

Player wins $534,000 at Ultimate Texas Hold’em on Las Vegas Strip

An exterior view of the Venetian in Las Vegas,Tuesday, March 17, 2020.

A guest at a Las Vegas Strip casino hit a $534,000 jackpot over the weekend while playing Ultimate Texas Hold’em. The player was dealt a heart ...

3 April 2024
By Las Vegas Sun Staff

Slot player hits $1.1 million jackpot at downtown Las Vegas casino

A view of the California Hotel and Casino on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, in downtown Las Vegas.

Las Vegas is affectionately referred to as the Ninth Island because of its many visitors from Hawaii. One Hawaiian visitor will return home with a great story to tell — and more than ...

2 April 2024
By Ray Brewer

NCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Saturday's games

Illinois guard Terrence Shannon Jr. celebrates after a fast break dunk against Iowa State during the second half of the Sweet 16 college basketball game in the men's NCAA Tournament, Friday, March 29, 2024, in Boston.

Connecticut is an 8.5-point favorite against Illinois in a game the metrics unanimously agree pits the two best offensive teams in the nation. ...

30 March 2024
By Case Keefer
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