The Gaming Control Board and the International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday they will cooperate in monitoring irregular bets related to the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia to ensure the integrity of the competition.
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Scott Kent’s love for fighting developed while he was growing up in Helena, Mont., and watched boxing on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports.”
Sports betting is big business in Nevada with $3.45 billion wagered in the last reporting year. But Las Vegas casinos and sports books are still trying to figure out how to attract fantasy sports players to the Strip.
The Las Vegas Events board on Thursday began evaluating a counteroffer made by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to keep the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas but did not make a decision on the PRCA proposal.
The PRCA, the sanctioning body that oversees the NFR, presented the counter offer to the event organizers nearly a month after its board voted 6-3 to reject the LVE offer. The PRCA also voted to make the counteroffer.
With Ultimate Fighting Championship poised for rapid international expansion in 2014, the Las Vegas-based mixed martial arts fight organization faces one major challenge — exporting its signature high-energy fight show production to venues around the world.
The Josh Harris-controlled Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils have signed a multiyear marketing agreement with partypoker, becoming the first major U.S.-based professional sports teams to align themselves with online gambling.
Not only is the PRCA mulling whether to keep the NFR in Las Vegas or move it to Central Florida, now it’s coping with an insurrection from big-name cowboy contestants who say they are defecting because the board rejected their request for more of a say on PRCA matters.
Professional rodeo’s most prominent cowboys — led by 11-time world all-around champion Trevor Brazile — say they are defecting from the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to form their own organization, but they are coy about their views on the future of rodeo in Las Vegas.
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