GHANA – JOURNALISTS TO CONVERGE FOR BETWAY SPORTS WRITERS CONFERENCE
By Samuel Qudingo The two-region Betway Sports Writer’s Conference will be held on the 5th and 7th February 2020 in Kumasi and Accra respectively. The conference will focus on equipping sports journalists with knowledge in live sports broadcasting, pre-game analysis, conducting…
PENNSYLVANIA: MORE THAN $30M IN WAGERS ON SUPER BOWLS
The Super Bowl took place this past weekend and Pennsylvania registered more than US$30 million in wagers. US.- The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) has released the preliminary figures from sports betting activity from this past weekend. During the Super Bowl, more…
LALIGA EXPANDS IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH GAMBLING BRAND HOLLYWOODBETS
By Iwo Bulski It will grant Hollywoodbets visibility during broadcasts of LaLiga’s via digital overlay technology. Match tickets will also be available for the betting brand to use in its upcoming marketing campaigns. The deal is further evidence of LaLiga’s ongoing…
OSASUNA INVOLVED IN LA LIGA MATCH FIXING CASE
Osasuna’s former club secretary, Angel Vizcay, has claimed that the club had made a series of payments to Getafe and Real Betis to influence the outcome of matches during the 2012-2013 and 2013-14 seasons. Vizcay claimed in a provincial court in Pamplona on Tuesday that Getafe…
LITHUANIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION: 24 MATCHES FIXED IN 2019
A total of 24 football matches in Lithuania were suspected of having been affected by match-fixing in 2019, according to the Lithuanian Football Federation. The figure was announced by the Gambling Supervisory Authority, part of Lithuania’s Ministry of Finance, as…
SHIRT SPONSORHIP DEAL IS CHANGING RWANDA GAMBLING LANDSCAPE
By Iwo Bulski A second shirt deal was recently signed with a French league club side Paris Saint Germain. With the momentum built around tourism, and football, some of the business that has sprouted is the casino gambling and the sports…
US SPORTS BETTING MARKET TO REACH $2.5 BILLION BY 2021: UNION GAMING
The current momentum of the U.S. sports betting market could increase the total amount of sports betting revenue to $2.5 billion by the year 2021. In a press release, Union Gaming explained that the numerous agreements fostered in 2019 between…
BECKY’S AFFILIATED: WHY SBC & OLIVER’S WISH CHARITY BOXING 2020 IS A MUST ATTEND
Kicking off a new year and in this instance, a new decade, is the perfect time to reflect on how we as an industry can do more good in this world. It just so happens a wonderful opportunity to do…
GERMANY’S SPORTS BETTING LICENSE APPLICATIONS START DRIBBLING IN
Germany is claiming success in its efforts to impose a new sports betting licensing regime, although it failed to show its work on how it calculated this success. On Tuesday, the Ministry of the Interior and Sport in the German…
KENYA ONCE THE HOT-BIRD OF SPORTS BETTING BUSINESS-COULD CRUMBLE IN 2020
By Samuel Qudingo In addition Kenya was described to have the highest numbers of mobile betting players in sub-Saharan Africa as well as having 83 percent of the people bets on football, whilst, on the average the amount spend on bets…