I’m treating guys who would never be caught dead in a casino,” James Whelan, a clinical psychologist who runs treatment ...

The black market, which advocates said would dry up as users move to legal sites, is thriving because more people than ever are gambling — and their play spills over into unregulated spaces.

The creator of popular deck-building poker inspired game Balatro has taken legal steps to ensure his creation can never be used to promote actual gambling.. Balatro is a roguelike that challenges ...

MLB Ump Fired – Gambling Scandal 2025. After a lengthy appeals process, Major League Baseball announced its decision to fire ...

Last year, the NFL suspended five players for gambling-related violations, and a Sportradar analysis found a 250% year-over-year increase in suspicious matches in basketball alone.

Balatro creator LocalThunk is determined to ensure his game will never find its way into the hands of gambling companies or casinos, so much so that he's had it explicitly written into his will.

And with its demise, the PGA Tour is among every other professional sport that is embracing the economic power of organized gambling — with guardrails to protect the sport's integrity.

Mobile sports wagering accounted for over $50 million. The Louisiana casino industry was nearly brought to it’s knees when a bill was introduced in the recent special legislative session to increase ...

Background. Not all gambling is illegal, although that wasn’t always the case. That’s especially true when it comes to sports. Beginning in 1992, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection ...

If you follow sports, gambling is everywhere. Ads for it are all over broadcasts; more than one in three Americans now bets on sports, according to a Seton Hall poll. Before 2018, sports gambling ...

Experts suggest that as many as 6% of all college students have a gambling problem, an incidence rate that is nearly double the average for U.S. adults.

Of the 6,697 callers who disclosed a form of gambling to advisers on its National Gambling Helpline in 2023-2024, 45% mentioned problems with online slot games, jumping from 34% in 2020-2021.