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Sports & Casino: Luke Garrison Luke Garrison is a professional writer who grew up just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He currently works at the Canadian Press and enjoys the outdoors in his free time. In 1993, MMA quickly became a widespread term after its first documented use by well-known critic Howard Rosenberg in his

View image in fullscreen NBA investigating Raptors’ Jontay Porter after betting irregularities Sportsbook reported inconsistencies in prop betting markets Forward currently listed as out because of personal reasons The NBA has opened an investigation into Toronto two-way player Jontay Porter amid gambling allegations. Raptors coach Darko Rajaković says he learned of the news shortly before

View image in fullscreen ‘At war with myself’: with gambling on the rise in the US, young addicts seek solace in an old program Inside Gambling Anonymous, the 12-step program offering compulsive gamblers help, and hope Each man enters the room, one by one, escaping the dark night outside. Before long some two dozen are

View image in fullscreen MLB star Shohei Ohtani’s translator fired after allegations of ‘massive theft’ Ippei Mizuhara admits to have run up gambling debts Ohtani is world’s most famous baseball player The interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, the biggest star in baseball and one of the most famous people in Japan, has been fired after lawyers

View image in fullscreen MLB embraced betting. Now it’s smeared with gambling’s grubby underbelly Like every other US sports league, baseball pushes betting on its fans at every turn. Now its biggest star is associated with a gambling fiasco This is Major League Baseball’s worst nightmare. The face of the league, its one, true international

As the demand for adrenaline-fueled experiences continues to grow, we sought to find out which countries are the best for thrill-seekers. To do this, we assessed and analysed seven factors across over 60 countries worldwide, including: Casinos Roller Coasters Rock Climbing Trails Mountain Bike Trails Hiking Trails Off-road trails Highest peak height (m) To ensure

View image in fullscreen Legal March Madness gambling generates $2.7bn – and plenty of abuse for players There will be more money riding on the NCAA Tournament than ever before in 2024. But with higher stakes comes more pressure on the athletes March Madness is famously capricious, but as the tournament gets under way one

View image in fullscreen ‘Sneaky’ social media ads are luring young into gambling, say campaigners Call for stricter rules for betting firms to stop use of promotions with references to popular culture that appeal to under-18s Tougher rules are required to crack down on betting firms’ use of “sneaky” social media postings and campaigns that

View image in fullscreen In the grip of slot machine addiction: ‘I’d keep loading £20s in. I could be in a daze’ As ‘adult gaming centres’ spread across the UK, one woman tells of how she kept playing even after getting a cancer diagnosis Jackie Olden can pinpoint the troubling origin of her mum’s gambling

View image in fullscreen Masters of spin – how slot machine operators are taking over UK high streets With concern focused on online casinos, the firms who run ‘adult gaming centres’ have been expanding fast – and glad-handing dozens of MPs In the corner of a dimly lit room, the face of a middle-aged woman

Sports & Casino: Luke Garrison Luke Garrison is a professional writer who grew up just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He currently works at the Canadian Press and enjoys the outdoors in his free time. MLB Teams Located in Canada Presently, the Toronto Blue Jays are the only MLB team located north of the border.

View image in fullscreen National Lottery operator had borrowed millions from Kremlin-owned banks Exclusive: Syndicate agreed to lend up to €640m to Allwyn in 2020, two years before contract awarded The company behind the national lottery was borrowing millions from Kremlin-owned banks when it won the UK’s largest public-sector contract, the Guardian can reveal. Russia’s

View image in fullscreen Worth its weight in gold: how to make a killing predicting the Oscars The TV audience may be in decline, but a passionate community of amateurs has been monitoring every tremor of buzz long before the ceremony Jason Turer has been an Oscars obsessive since he was a teenager. The first

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About 228m bets placed on Super Bowl LVIII were on illegal platforms despite legalization, according to a new analysis by Callum Jones in New York This month’s Super Bowl, in the neon glare of the Las Vegas Strip, capped online betting’s extraordinary rise from pariah to the luxury box of top-flight sports. Tens of millions

View image in fullscreen Online slot machine stakes to be capped at £5 in Great Britain Maximum will be £2 for younger adults but campaigners say government has not gone far enough The amount that can be staked on the spin of an online slot machine will be capped at £5, or £2 for younger

Lance Armstrong’s cancer battle started in 1995, and it took two long years of worry and pain, but against all odds, the bicyclist was able to make a full recovery. Read along to learn more, and feel free to use the navigation panel below to jump to a relevant section of the blog post. Who

View image in fullscreen UK online gambling operators braced for £2 stake limit on digital slot machines Government-imposed maximum to be announced on Friday could cost companies hundreds of millions in revenue The gambling industry is braced for new limits of as little as £2 a spin for online slot machines, the Guardian understands, in

View image in fullscreen Man sues Powerball lottery after being told his apparent $340m win was error Game’s administrators said their website only showed John Cheeks’s numbers as the winning combination by mistake A man who thought he had won a $340m Powerball jackpot is suing the lottery after the game’s administrators said their website

View image in fullscreen ‘It changed my life’: how a UK charity is helping female gambling addicts For women put off by male-dominated Gamblers Anonymous meetings, a treatment centre in Wolverhampton offers a lifeline At the height of her addiction at the age of 21, Megan Vanderson lost £4,000 in 10 minutes gambling on games