Two popular Miami ships have ceased operations now that local officials have negotiated with existing dog and horse racing tracks to permit them to open on-shore casinos rather than sailing three miles out into international waters where the law allowed unrestricted casino gambling.
And now the Seminole Tribe of Florida has expanded the Hard Rock Casino [...]

Microsoft, Yahoo and Google - the three largest Internet companies agreed on Wednesday to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations that they had accepted ads for illegal internet gambling.
The companies said they stopped taking the ads years ago. The settlement was announced by Catherine L. Hanaway, the United States attorney for [...]

The U.S. Tennis Open organizers have hired a New York security firm to set up a whistle-blower hotline in an effort to ward off tennis gambling. The step came in the wake of a recent betting investigation in tennis and a former NBA referee’s admission he gambled on games he officiated.
“The U.S. Tennis Association [...]

World football’s governing body, FIFA, has set up its own body to safeguard against match-fixing and betting scams in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
FIFA’s ‘Early Warning System’ has been given its own offices at the organization’s Zurich HQ with the brief to: “prevent sports betting from having any negative impact [...]

The new voluntary advertising code agreed by the UK’s gambling industry has been released and includes an evening watershed on TV advertising and a guarantee to end advertising on children’s replica football shirts.
Under the new agreement, adverts will also carry gambleaware banners akin to the drinkaware warnings on alcohol related advertising.
Twelve industry bodies, including [...]

The European Commission has taken the first steps to remove obstacles to the provision of sports betting services in France, Sweden and Greece. The Commission has requested France and Sweden amend their laws “following consideration of their replies to letters of formal notice sent in April and October 2006”.

Not satisfied with the reasons given by those countries for maintaining their gambling monopolies [...]

The Japanese government has announced its plans to legalize casino gambling next year and is currently drafting the legislation.
Seiko Noda of the ruling Liberal Democratic said that they hoped to pass the bill by the end of the next ordinary Diet session in June 2008.
The party is hoping that casinos will boost tourism, as it [...]

The European Commission has launched the second stage of legal proceedings against Denmark, Finland and Hungary over what it sees as measures to restrict the free movement of sports betting services. It has demanded, in the form of reason opinion, that the EU member states amend their laws, after calling them unnecessary and discriminatory.

By Neil CravenMarch 5 (Bloomberg) — William Hill Plc, Britain’s second- largest bookmaker by sales, said profit increased 47 percent last year, stoked by wagers placed on soccer’s World Cup.
Net income rose to 166.8 million pounds ($321.5 million), or 44.9 pence a share in the fiscal year ended Dec. 26, from 113.1 million pounds, or [...]

How to win your office NCAA pool
By Marshall Loeb - MarketWatch
NEW YORK — Didn’t win the office Oscar pool? Don’t worry — there’s always March Madness. The famed NCAA college basketball tournament gives die-hard and fair-weather fans alike a chance to earn some cash by correctly predicting the outcome.
In fact, so many workers across the [...]