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The NFL will head into the 2026 season with three official sports betting partners after signing multi-year deals with DraftKings, FanDuel and Fanatics Betting and Gaming. DraftKings and FanDuel have held that status since 2021. Fanatics now joins them through a broader relationship with the league that already covers collectibles and official NFL merchandise. Making it official this season. Fanatics Sportsbook & Casino is now an Official Sports Betting and Online Casino Partner of th

Kalshi is disputing a New York Times report about the expanding legal and political battle over prediction markets, including questions about sports betting, taxes, consumer safeguards and federal intervention. The company responded August 27 as 20 states face active litigation involving Kalshi or other prediction markets. Separately, 44 states signed a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission arguing the platforms have sidestepped state regulation and taxes. “The New York Times

A federal judge has restarted Kalshi’s lawsuit against Montana officials after months of delays, while rejecting the prediction-market operator’s bid for immediate protection from state enforcement. U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy refused another request from both sides to pause the case and gave Montana 21 days to answer or otherwise respond to Kalshi’s complaint. “No extensions of time will be granted,” Molloy wrote in the August 27 order. The judge also denied Kalshi’s preliminary inj

The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) is open to stopping players from appearing in personalized sportsbook marketing connected with VIP or tier programs. At the same time, it wants MLB to support wider restrictions on some bets tied to events during games. MLBPA General Counsel Jeffrey Perconte outlined that position in an August 24 response to Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Reps. Paul Tonko and Valerie Foushee. The lawmakers had written to the union on August 10 after a persona

Matt Gogel will spend six months away from PGA Tour-sanctioned competition after the Tour determined that the PGA Tour Champions member had been betting on golf competitions. The PGA Tour announced the discipline Wednesday (August 26), saying Gogel broke its Integrity Program by wagering on PGA Tour competition. The organization said none of those bets involved a tournament in which Gogel was competing. His suspension took effect August 23, 2026, and will remain in place through February 2

Connecticut is suing Kalshi, asking a state court to stop the prediction market from offering sports contracts to residents without a gambling license. Attorney General William Tong announced the lawsuit Wednesday alongside Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Bryan T. Cafferelli and Gov. Ned Lamont. Connecticut wants an injunction blocking Kalshi from continuing to offer contracts that officials consider unlicensed sports betting. Connecticut just filed this lawsuit to shutdown

Novig and New Mexico officials want to pause their federal court battle over sports event contracts until August 2027, giving another case time to address a legal issue at the heart of their dispute. Ludlow Exchange LLC, which operates as Novig, joined the New Mexico defendants in asking the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico on Tuesday (August 25) to stay proceedings through August 13, 2027. Novig sued Attorney General Raul Torrez and New Mexico Gaming Control Board members o

The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas has opened Naskila Casino Leggett, giving Polk County its first operating piece of a much larger casino resort planned for the property. Tribal members marked the occasion Monday (August 24) with a Tribal Membership Opening Day ceremony. Doors opened to everyone Tuesday and visitors began lining up early. Visitors inside the newly opened Naskila Casino Leggett in Polk County, Texas. Credit: Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas via Facebook Operating arou

Nebraska voters will get a say on two online sports wagering proposals in the November 2026 general election. The Secretary of State’s office said August 21 that both petition campaigns gathered enough valid signatures to make the ballot. “The Secretary of State’s office announced today that signature thresholds have been met for both the Online Sports Wagering Authorization Constitutional Amendment petition and the Online Sports Wagering Regulation Initiative petition to appear on the 2026 g

Kalshi is widening its footprint in Major League Baseball (MLB) after agreeing to exclusive, multi-year brand partnerships with five clubs. The prediction market platform announced the deals on Tuesday (August 25). The Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants are all part of the agreements. Kalshi will serve as a prediction market partner for each team, with its brand appearing in stadiums and across social media, digital promotions and ra

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has predicted that the escalating battle over prediction markets will ultimately reach the U.S. Supreme Court, as states, federal regulators and the fast-growing industry clash over whether sports event contracts should be treated as federally regulated derivatives or gambling subject to state law. Christie, now a strategic adviser to the American Gaming Association, made the comments during an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, where he criticized the regu

Independent senator David Pocock has accused the Albanese government of undermining its own pledge to break the connection between gambling and sport, after it emerged betting company logos could remain on professional sporting jerseys until the end of 2031. Children across Australia could continue seeing gambling brands on the jerseys of their sporting heroes for more than five years under transitional provisions in the federal government’s gambling reforms. The legislation bans wagering

Kalshi is pushing to keep New York’s lawsuit against the prediction-market operator in federal court, saying the state’s case cannot be resolved without answering key questions about federal commodities and gambling law. In an August 21 filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Kalshi challenged Attorney General Letitia James’ effort to send the dispute back to state court. “This case should not be remanded,” Kalshi said in the filing. Kalshi makes urgent

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is backing the criminal case against Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a US Army master sergeant accused of using classified military information to make more than $400,000 trading Polymarket event contracts tied to Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro. In an August 21 notice, the CFTC asked the US District Judge Margaret M. Garnett for permission to file an amicus brief supporting prosecutors as Van Dyke seeks to dismiss Commodity Exchange Act charges. He argues th

More than 150 cryptocurrency wallets betting on military events through Polymarket behaved in ways researchers associate with possible insider trading. Now a separate federal prosecution involving a U.S. Army master sergeant is giving those concerns a real-world legal test. The Anti-Corruption Data Collective, or ACDC, identified 152 wallets making unusually successful longshot bets in military and defence markets. Together, the wallets won about $8 million. Our latest report examines the

Ontario’s gambling watchdog has hit Booming Games with a CAD $70,000 ($51,000) penalty after discovering that players could use a banned auto-play feature on several online slot titles. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario found the functionality had been available for months through the platform of a licensed operator. Provincial standards do not allow auto-play on slot games while customers are betting money. AGCO orders $70,000 penalty on Booming Games for undermining player pr

Caesars Sportsbook has been ordered to pay more than $296,000 after New Jersey regulators found the company broke several rules designed to support responsible gambling. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement assessed a $251,250 civil fine and told Caesars to give up another $45,465.38, according to an order from the state Attorney General’s Office and Department of Law and Public Safety. The two payments add up to $296,715.38. Caesars agreed to the $251,250 penalty. The sportsbook

At the CFTC inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting, Wall Street veterans and upstarts from prediction markets agreed Washington needs clearer rules. They were rather less united on whether some of the products currently being invented should exist at all. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) convened some of the biggest names in crypto, derivatives and prediction markets on Thursday to discuss the future of American finance. For roughly three hours, the future was blockcha

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) push to rewrite the rules governing prediction markets is unlikely to rescue sports event contracts from mounting legal challenges and could instead give opponents another avenue to sue the regulator, according to Better Markets policy director and COO Amanda Fischer. Speaking on the Indian Gaming Association’s The New Normal webinar, Fischer argued that CFTC Chairman Michael Selig’s rulemaking drive amounts to an attempt to strengthen the fed

Michigan authorities took three machines suspected of being used for illegal gambling from a Muskegon bar during a search tied to an investigation of possible unlicensed gaming. The Michigan Gaming Control Board searched DJ’s Pub at 2064 Henry St. under a warrant, working alongside the Michigan Attorney General’s Office and Muskegon Police Department. Regulators began looking into the bar after the gaming board received a tip in January. During the search, investigators removed three machi