3300 stories by Philip Conneller
Sumo Wrestlers Jettisoned After Illegal Gambling Probe
Two Japanese sumo wrestlers have been sidelined from the sport for their alleged involvement in illegal gambling. The Japanese Sumo Association’s (JSA) compliance committee confirmed this week that elite makuuchi division wrestler Hidenoumi and second-tier juryo-division wrestler Shiden were targeted. They are believed to have...
Valve Corp. Repels Final CS:GO Skins Gambling Lawsuit
A federal judge in Washington State has dumped a longstanding lawsuit against Valve Corp, which claimed the video games publisher enabled kids to gamble using “skins.” This is the last of several lawsuits that was filed against the Bellevue, Washington-based games giant...
Poker Player Lena Evans Accuses PayPal of Racketeering in Federal Lawsuit
Lena Evans, a two-time World Series of Poker Circuit ring winner, is suing PayPal. In a RICO lawsuit filed Thursday in a Northern California federal court, she accuses the digital payments giant of “fraudulent, oppressive, and malicious conduct.” In the proposed class-action...
Malta Casino Owner Charged with Murder Wants Witness Prosecuted for Perjury
A Maltese casino owner awaiting trial for the murder the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia wants the man who put him in the dock to be prosecuted for perjury. Yorgen Fenech is accused of ordering Caruana Galizia’s 2017 assassination by car bomb, an...
Macau Casino Stocks Surge With News On License Renewals
Macau’s next regulatory regime will include six concessions, or licenses, with the tenure of those licenses halved from 20 years to a decade, the gambling hub’s Executive Council said Friday. The long-awaited clarification on forthcoming reforms caused shares in LVS, MGM Resorts,...
Why Tunisia-Mali AFCON Refereeing Scandal Probably Wasn’t Match Fixing
The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) game between Tunisia and Mali ended in chaos and confusion Wednesday. That's after Zambian referee Janny Sikazwe blew his whistle for full time in the 85th minute. The bizarre and unprecedented incident at the Limbe Stadium...
Oregon Racetrack Faces Axing of 226 Workers Without Gaming Machines
An Oregon racetrack owned by Dutch Bros coffee billionaire Travis Boersma will lay off 226 workers next month. That’s unless the state racing commission greenlights its application for 225 historical horse-racing machines. The ultimatum, first reported by Willamette Week, comes as an...
Tiger King Star Charged with Grand Larceny for Stealing Wynn Las Vegas Candelabra
Masha Diduk, Tiger King’s so-called “hot nanny,” has gone from big cats to grand larceny, TMZ reports. Diduk has been charged by Las Vegas police with stealing a $5,000 candelabra from Wynn Las Vegas. Last July, Wynn security cameras spotted a woman...
Entain CEO Mulls Returning $136M Coronavirus Relief Payout After Bad Press
Entain chief-executive Jette Nygaard-Andersen has said her company may return the £102 million (US$136 million) it claimed in coronavirus relief payments. That's following a media backlash about the perceived misuse of taxpayers’ money. But then again, she said, it might not. Last...
Las Vegas Man with Severed Head in Trunk Claims He is ‘Unlucky Car Thief’
A Las Vegas man who was charged with murder after police found a severed head in his truck in a parking garage next to the Rio says it’s not his truck. A lawyer for Eric Holland, 57, claimed last week his client...
