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Pro League Network Partners with ProhiBet to ‘Enhance’ Regulatory Compliance on Alternative Sports

February 10, 2024

Pro League Network, one of the leading sports media and entertainment companies producing fun and unique sports, optimized for wagering, has announced a partnership with ProhiBet. Designed to safeguard sports integrity and ensure adherence to state-specific regulations, ProhiBet will play “a pivotal role in preventing specific individuals such as athletes, coaches, officials, and administration” from…
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Sun Belt Conference Partners with ProhiBet for Sports Wagering Monitoring and Regulatory Compliance Software

November 16, 2023

The Sun Belt Conference has partnered with U.S. Integrity and ProhiBet to enhance sports wagering monitoring efforts and provide educational resources to its student-athletes, coaches, staff and officials. “The Sun Belt Conference is dedicated to safeguarding the integrity of competition across all of our sponsored sports,” said Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Keith Gill. “Our partnership…
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Governor Announces Plan to Bring Sports Betting to Oklahoma

November 7, 2023

Governor Kevin Stitt has announced his plan to make sports betting a reality in Oklahoma. The Governor’s plan, which would allow Oklahomans to place in-person bets at gaming sites operated by federally recognized tribes, would protect tribal investments in brick-and-mortar facilities. The plan would also allow Oklahomans to place bets on their mobile devices on…
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Hackney Publications Changes Name of My Legal Bookie to Legal Issues in Sports Betting, Announces Professors Gil Fried and Justin L. Davis as Co-Editors

October 14, 2023

Hackney Publications has announced that My Legal Bookie, a quarterly publication that reports on the legal side of the sports betting industry, is changing its name to Legal Issues in Sports Betting, as well as naming two co-Editors from the academic community. Subscriptions are free at the site. University of West Florida Professor Gil Fried…
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Seton Hall Law School Fourth Annual Sports Law Symposium: Money in Sports – The Year of Investment in Sports

October 9, 2023

Seton Hall University will hold its Fourth Annual Sports Law Symposium on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Presented by the Seton Hall Law School Gaming, Hospitality, Entertainment & Sports (GHamES) Initiative and the Entertainment & Sports Law Society, the theme for this year’s Symposium, the first fully in person event, is…
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More Than Half of Americans Say ‘Yes’ to Payments to College Athletes Participating in Revenue Generating Sports

March 20, 2023

Respondents to a Seton Hall University Sports Poll were asked if student athletes should be financially compensated for participating in revenue producing sports, above their scholarships and a cost of attendance stipend. The numbers were in favor and up from last year, with 55 percent of the general population, 62 percent of sports fans and…
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Latest Issue of Sports Litigation Alert Touches on FTX, NIL, Coaching Contracts, Harvard Lawsuit and Many, Many Other Current Developments in Sports Law

March 14, 2023

Hackney Publications announced today that it was making its latest issue of Sports Litigation Alert, published on February 24, 2023, the new sample issue on the site, a reflection of the issue’s “strength,” according to Editor and Publisher Holt Hackney. “We pride ourselves on providing provocative insight and thought leadership on the sports law issues…
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Sports Lawyers Association Opens Registration for 47th Annual SLA Conference

March 7, 2023

The Sports Lawyers Association, the preeminent organization for legal professionals in the sports industry, announced today that registration has opened for its 47th Annual Conference, which will take place May 11-13 at the JW Marriott Los Angeles LA Live. This year’s conference, which regularly attracts more than 1,000 attorneys, agents, administrators, and academics, is designed…
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Sports Betting and the Concept of ‘Never Enough Zeroes’ – an Excerpt

June 10, 2022

(What follows is an excerpt from Never Enough Zeroes, written by Joel Soper and Philip Wyeth. For information on how to purchase, scroll to the bottom.) Here’s the thing about being a compulsive gambler – there’s never enough zeroes. I’ve had weeks where I won a hundred thousand dollars. Did I treat myself to a vacation in Palm Springs?…
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Match Fixing on the Rise as Global Sports Betting Turnover Surpasses EUR1.45 Trillion for the First Time

June 1, 2022

(Editor’s Note: The following appeared in the most recent issue of MyLegalBookie, a publication that reports on the legal sports betting industry.) The detection of a record number of suspicious matches exposes the serious, ongoing threat match-fixing presents to the integrity of global sport at all levels as the amount of money bet on sports…
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