Christie says he’s not done fighting for legal betting; Stern to deliver pro-betting speech

Twice weekly, we’ll comb through as many articles, tweets and podcasts as we can find related to the world of sports betting and daily fantasy sports, and publish the good stuff here. 

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he plans to keep fighting for legalized sports betting in New Jersey following a decision by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals which ruled against the effort.

“I think we go to the Supreme Court,” he said while co-hosting the “Boomer & Carton” sports-talk radio show on WFAN-660 AM. “There’s only one step left: the United States Supreme Court.”

Christie, though, conceded that such a move is a “long shot.” The nation’s highest court accepts only 1 percent of petitions. And the court declined to hear an earlier version of New Jersey’s case in 2014.


Former NBA commission David Stern give a speech in favor of legalized sports betting at an upcoming gaming conference in  Las Vegas.

Stern will be a featured speaker at the Global Gaming Expo on Sept. 29 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center. He will discuss the future of sports betting and its impact on major professional sports with president and CEO of the American Gaming Association Geoff Freeman.


A Slate blog posts suggests Las Vegas’ handle on Olympics is low because Team USA is too dominant.

Rood told me that the betting on the Olympics as a whole has been equivalent to a big regular-season baseball game, with basketball and golf getting particular attention. Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino put its lines up at the beginning of June, but on the eve of the games had yet to see much action outside of basketball and soccer. Things could still improve as various sports move toward their gold-medal finals, but so far, the Olympics’ return to casino floors, 15 years after Sen. John McCain pushed to ban gambling on most amateur sports and 18 months after the Nevada Gaming Commission made an exception for the Olympics, has been a muted affair.

 

An article published by NBC News says that most of the money bet on the Olympics in Nevada has been wagered on Americans.

Much of the action so far hasn’t centered on the little-known athletes, but instead Americans wanting to place their bets on perennial Olympic champion Michael Phelps taking home more gold medals.

“Mainly people are betting on the Americans and Michael Phelps, which is understandable. On those events, it’s a lot of patriotic money it seems,” Pullen said.


A British tennis player might have been intentionally poisoned by rat urine during her run in the junior girls’ competition at Wimbledon.

Taylor is a rising star within British tennis, and authorities are investigating whether she was poisoned by either a betting syndicate or perhaps a rival.


An article published by Gizmodo says some consumer are concerned that DraftKings and FanDuel aren’t keeping their data secure.

The biggest alleged sins? Some consumers say that both DraftKings and FanDuel have asked them to send photos of driver’s licenses and credit cards (images of both front and back) over email. Other consumers have alleged that employees at these sites have asked for sensitive information like social security numbers over email and unencrypted web forms. When these consumers ask what kind of protections are in place for their data they’ve allegedly gotten no response.


A Detroit News reporter looks into the future of daily fantasy sports in America.

But the quickly developing relationship between daily fantasy sports and professional sports is based on the assertion they are games of skill, not chance, and therefore not gambling.

That is far from clear, as legal and political clashes over the question in the states demonstrate.

With the ground shifting under their eager embrace of daily fantasy sports, the leagues and franchises monitor regulatory, legal and legislative developments.