The legalization of sports betting has sparked a growing number of gambling-related controversies.
The Toronto Raptors’ Jontay Porter was just banned for life for violating betting rules. There will be much more of this to comeOn Wednesday, the NBA announced that Jontay Porter, a center for the Toronto Raptors, was banned from the league for life. An investigation found that the bench player disclosed confidential information to gamblers, exited a match early to influence an “over/under” wager on his stat line, and bet on games using a friend’s account.Porter’s actions shouldn’t be...
Fresh research suggests that more than 150,000 people in Finland suffer from gambling problems. Young men are the largest risk group.
Re: Canucks tickets are skyrocketing, so is sports and entertainment now the exclusive realm of the rich? To answer the question J.J. Adams has posed: The answer is yes, sports and entertainment tickets have always been a luxury item for the wealthy and anyone else who is willing to max their credit cards to catch some […]
The most anticipated first-round series of the NBA playoffs is here: the Lakers versus the defending champion Denver Nuggets. LeBron James’ squad was swept by Denver in the last postseason, and L.A. hasn’t beaten the Nuggets since December 2022, which is why the Lakers are serious underdogs according to the online gambling site DraftKings. Sound like a good bet? Or at least a fun one? That’s the vibe DraftKings is going for. One of the site’s recent promos features comedian Kevin Hart hawking...
Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More
South Carolina is an amazing undefeated national championship team. The NCAA not awarding Most Outstanding Player in the tournament to Caitlin Clark is a travesty. It was a noble gesture by coach Dawn Staley to recognize Clark as a "GOAT of our sport" in her postgame interview. Brad Kearns Stateline, Nev. :: Obviously, South Carolina was too big, too deep, and too well-coached for even the great Caitlin Clark to overcome. After an impressive 18-point first quarter, she virtually disappeared with...
In 2023, the online sports gambling sector in the United States generated approximately $11 billion, with the NFL season serving as a significant catalyst.
The NBA has issued a lifetime ban to Jontay Porter after an investigation found that he disclosed information to bettors and bet on NBA games.
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The league found that Porter leaked information about his health to a
The NBA just made an unprecedented disciplinary move. The league just banned Toronto Raptors guard Jontay Porter from the NBA for life. Porter not only bet on his own team to take an L, but also did things to manipulate his play to alter the betting scales in his favor! Wild. League Commissioner Adam Silver […] The post SOURCE SPORTS: Jontay Porter Banned From NBA for Life After Gambling and Betting His Team Would Lose first appeared on The Source.