No more March Madness: DraftKings and FanDuel have agreed to suspend the offering of DFS contests on NCAA games.
While the 2016 Men’s NCAA National Championship ended in spellbinding drama last night and Kris Jenkins’ sizzling, match-winning shot in the last micro-second regarding the blew our tiny small minds, this might be probably the last year ever that fans should be able to ramp up the satisfaction of March Madness through DFS contests.
Both DraftKings and FanDuel have voluntarily agreed this week to close the drafts on college-level and amateur sports. This follows just what a FanDuel spokesperson called ‘months of productive conversations’ with the NCAA, in addition to state legislators, during which both organizations heard their issues about the effect of fantasy activities on college-level and athletics that are amateur.
Both Indiana and Virginia, which in 2010 became the states that are first regulate DFS in the usa, included provisions inside their legislation that the contests ought not to be based on college competitions.
‘It is obvious that this is an issue that things to a variety of constituencies and we feel that the best path forward is to suspend offering these contests pending resolution in the problem within state legislatures,’ said FanDuel.
‘We supported all of these efforts, and going ahead we shall actively help bills containing the same provisions. We are happy that we are able to work together with the NCAA on smart laws for the dream activities industry.’
LA Galaxy Deal
Meanwhile, in related news, DraftKings announced this week it has partnered with Major League Soccer franchise LA Galaxy. As well as having its branding within the Galaxy stadium, DraftKings will offer ‘once-in-a-lifetime VIP experiences’ through its competitions.
Your website has revamped and expanded its soccer offering as an ingredient of its current move into the UK and planned expansion throughout Europe and Latin America. And while the marketing push in the UK appears to have been muted, perhaps through distractions using its different legal skirmishes closer to home, DraftKings did find a way to nail straight down sponsorship addresses English Premier League clubs Arsenal, Liverpool and Watford in February.
Just What Happened to DraftKings’ International Expansion?
Other than this effective advertising coup for a new brand name in the UK market, our UK-based spies report that DraftKings has barely registered one of the local populace, regardless of the business gathering a $300 million war upper body from investors final summer time to aid expansion that is international.
Half of the amount arrived from Fox Sports, for an 11 % stake into the company, and so that the news that Fox Sports Australia has teamed up with neighborhood betting operator CrownBet to launch its own Australian DFS platform this week, on Sportech’s DraftDay platform, appears like an odd one to us.
Just to confuse issues further, the brand that is new called ‘DraftStars,’ risking the ire of the intellectual property lawyers at Amaya, whose ‘StarsDraft’ DFS brand is currently on ice, pending a more favorable regulatory outlook it the US.
Donald Trump Gets Heat from Las Vegas, Nevada Hotel Workers as GOP Race Moves Towards Contested Meeting
GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s chances of avoiding a contested convention have actually narrowed, following a pounding from Ted Cruz in Wisconsin in Tuesday’s primaries.
Donald Trump (seen only at a rally in Las Vegas earlier this season) took a trouncing in Wisconsin on Tuesday, and today the likelihood of a contested gop convention is more probable than ever for Cleveland this July. (Image: Ethan Miller/Getty)
Cruz took down the Badger State in commanding fashion with nearly one in two Wisconsin voters picking the Texas senator over the increasingly controversial Trump.
The candidate that is evangelistic 48.2 percent of the vote to Trump’s 35.1 percent, while Ohio Governor John Kasich completed third with 14.1 percent. In the final end, 36 delegates went to Cruz, and Trump had been awarded six.
Regarding the Democratic side of the race, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won yet another contest, their sixth win of the past seven states. Nonetheless, Hillary Clinton nevertheless maintains her lead over the senator that is surging 1,279 delegates to his 1,027.
Cruz’s victory could be a turning point in the Republican race for the nomination and moves the race closer up to a historic contested convention. It now appears more doubtful that either Trump or Cruz will achieve the 1,237 delegates that are pledged to secure the GOP solution uncontested.
As of today, Trump remains in first place with 743 delegates to Cruz’s 517.
With only 882 delegates still outstanding, Cruz will have to win almost 82 per cent of the upcoming vote. Trump would need to claim 56 %.
Who’s on First?
Though Cruz nevertheless believes he can win the mandatory 1,237 delegates, few experts that are political it’s likely or feasible.
‘Tonight is a point that is turning’ Cruz said after he was declared the victor. ‘I am more and more convinced that our campaign is going to win the 1,237 delegates needed seriously to win the Republican nomination.’
The chances of that happening seem about as likely as making money slots that are playing.
Pundits in the political arena more widely think that Cruz, as well as Kasich, that is mathematically eliminated, is hoping for a contested convention against the former casino magnate. No presumptive nominee would arrive in Cleveland, and after a first ballot vote, the majority of delegates could swing to any candidate of their choosing in that scenario.
Union Pushes Back
Cruz, Kasich, and others in the conservative right are trying to persuade voters to vacate the Trump camp. Attack ads and petty social media quarrels, which Trump readily plays into, has seemingly slowed the billionaire’s campaign and increased his unfavorable poll numbers.
Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, Trump is also getting heat, but in the place of governmental foes, it’s from the very employees he will pay.
On 500 Trump Las Vegas workers officially unionized to negotiate new and better contracts monday.
‘We voted for a union so we could negotiate a reasonable contract,’ employee Jeffrey Wise told the Las vegas, nevada Review-Journal. ‘We voted and won, now it’s time for him to listen to us, the voters, last but not least do the right thing by making a deal with their employees.’
Like many private company owners, Trump leadership is against the union and had marketed to workers that unionizing wasn’t into the individuals’ interest that is best. The newly formed union will represent both complete and employees that are part-time provide in housekeeping, food and beverage, and guest services.
Trump Overseas Hotel Las Vegas is just a casino-less property situated right behind the chichi Fashion Show Mall on the nevada Strip.
In addition to his governmental opponents plus the Vegas union, the Internet hacking group Anonymous forced several Trump websites offline last Friday. The anarchist group is on a crusade to disrupt his campaign and businesses, claiming it’s due to Trump’s controversial immigration and policy that is foreign.
Brazil Gambling Laws Come Far Too Late for 2016 Summer Olympic Games
Visitors desired! Brazil gambling laws weren’t passed with time to permit casinos to welcome visitors during the 2016 Rio Summer Games, and additionally it is unclear whether the Guanabara that is polluted Bay be cleaned with time for aquatic competition. (Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Brazil gambling laws becoming pressed through the government will not be implemented in time for tourists to place wagers regarding the August 5-12 Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Political leaders in Brazil are to be culpable for the country hosting the Games while staying free of casinos, and it’s a deep failing that will probably cost the millions that are republic tax revenue.
It’s one of the reasons that are many half of this 7.5 million tickets have been offered with lower than four months remaining before the opening ceremonies.
Bad ticket product sales are a problem that is dire Brazilian organizers and International Olympic Committee officials who’re now scrambling to find a means to places fans in seats.
Brazil Acting Minister of Sports Ricardo Leyser recently opined that residents of the country simply have not ‘awoken to your arrival of this Games.’ To help alter that reality, Leyser says the federal government is considering buying large sums of seats and distributing them to schools that are public.
As well as increasing excitement and intrigue among citizens, Brazil must also persuade potential tourists that Rio can and certainly will adequately host the Summer Olympics in a capacity that is safe. Concerns over water cleanliness are of utmost importance, as the heavily polluted and stagnant Guanabara Bay may be for this spread of the Zika that is mosquito-borne virus.
Gambling Law Too Late
Those in Nevada and vegas should be able to legitimately bet regarding the 2016 Summer Games adhering to a unanimous overture that is legal the state’s Gaming Control Board in March. Brazil tried to have a page from the Silver State’s playbook, but their efforts defintely won’t be applied with time for the Olympics.
Final December, federal lawmakers in Brazil authorized a bill to authorize 35 land-based casinos and subsequently included provisions to legalize gaming that is online. Unfortunately, the gambling facilities will not be built in time for the Olympics.
An approximated $80 million was wagered in the 2012 Games in London where gambling on sports is a pastime of British culture. Nevertheless relatively small when compared with activities gambling on the Triple Crown horse events and Super Bowl, bookmakers have slowly ways that are developed make Olympic betting more attractive.
Brazil is in the midst of a middle-class revolt as the economy continues to spiral downward, and phone calls for President Dilma Rousseff’s resignation or impeachment are gaining help. Brazil was awarded the Summer Games in 2009, ample time to push through casino legislation and erect facilities, but the venues never ever found realization.
It might have been easy money for the government, but alas, the monies will be wagered somewhere else.
If You Build It, Will They Come?
10,500 athletes from 206 nations are anticipated to descend on Rio de Janeiro this summer time for the first Olympics held in South America. In concept, bringing the Olympics to the poverty-stricken third world country would seem to enhance the economy through tourism.
The problem aided by the theory is that Brazil is surrounded by other bad countries filled with residents who are not able to journey to the games as a result of economic circumstances.
There’s a reason why the Summer Games are traditionally hosted in metropolitan and business hubs. The last five host cities, Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing, and London, are all bustling epicenters that are easily accessible by foreigners from nearby wealthy nations.
Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Columbia simply don’t have the demographics that are same wide range compared to Europe, the US, Australia or China.
That is why it will be described as a challenge that is tall get millions to Rio come july 1st.
Sheldon Adelson Hyperventilates over Hyperlink, While Steve and Elaine Wynn War of the Roses Goes Ballistic
Sheldon Adelson’s latest defamation suit hinges on a web link.
Peace out, not really much: Las Vegas Sands top honcho Sheldon Adelson is affronted by a hyperlink that he considers become libelous. (Image: ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty)
Notoriously litigious , the vegas Sands (LVS) CEO is also currently suing a Wall Street Journal journalist who called him a ‘scrappy, foul-mouthed billionaire from working-class Dorchester.’ Now, Adelson is desperate to let his legal team put their daggers into the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) for an online petition it circulated in 2012, with one of the links Adelson says is libelous.
The petition in question needed then-Republican presidential prospect Mitt Romney to refuse Adelson’s campaign donations. The rationale behind this push was a report published by the Associated Press, which suggested that the solicitations of ill repute were tolerated at LVS’s casinos in Macau.
(we shall now pause while everyone whom has ever stepped base in any Las Vegas casino, where prostitution is additionally unlawful, chuckles).
The AP story under consideration referenced the ongoing wrongful dismissal instance between LVS and former Sands China CEO Stephen Jacobs, citing an accusation produced by Jacobs in his filing against the company. But the NJDC petition failed to say that the accusation had been element of judicial procedures, and that its veracity was being hotly contested by LVS.
World’s Oldest Professional
The LVS filing states that Adelson, 82, who only opted to sue when the NJDC refused to print a retraction, discovers the ‘practice of prostitution morally abhorrent,’ and operates a ‘zero-tolerance policy’ to prostitution in his casinos.
‘The online ‘petition’ at issue here accused [Adelson] of taking ‘Dirty Money’ from ‘PROSTITUTION’ and did not discuss or even point out any judicial proceeding,’ stated Adelson’s filing.
The Nevada Supreme Court has been expected to decide on whether a hyperlink can be defamatory, it should also be asked to offer a judicial opinion on the unwarranted and inflammatory use of the caps lock key although we think.