The other night, my older son grabbed a deck of cards and said, "Hey, Dad, how do you play poker?" He's 9.I used to play regularly with friends when we lived in New Jersey, but I haven't picked up a game since we moved to Connecticut a couple of ...

There is something for everyone in U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp's 45-page ruling against New Jersey in its fight for legalized sports betting in the state, a decision delivered deep into the night of Feb. 28.If you believe, like the citizens of ...

In the week since the Miami Hurricanes debuted atop the Sweat Barometer that I work up with Sal Selvaggio of madduxsports.com, they have: racked up three wins (at Florida State, at Clemson and at home versus a very dangerous Virginia team); come ...

A few years ago, I was in Las Vegas for a reporting trip. It was a Tuesday afternoon in the middle of college basketball season, post-Super Bowl. Ed Salmons and Jeff Sherman, bookmakers at the Las Vegas Hotel, were standing behind their sports ...

A soccer match-fixing scandal that spreads from Europe to Asia to Africa.An oral argument in New Jersey to determine whether sports betting should be legal in the United States.A record haul in the state of Nevada for Super Bowl betting.Three ...

I am jetting to New Orleans as I write this, busting it in a tin can flying nose-first into 130 mph winds (you should have seen how this sentence looked before the turbulence stopped). To my left is a guy with a pen, making notes in the column of ...

I think Christopher Power is the kind of doctor I'd like to have in an emergency.For one thing, the 40-year-old is an emergency room doctor, so there's that. But there's also the fact that he is an NFL fan in Cullman, Ala., who, after moving away ...

Prop bets were born for two reasons, the same two reasons that just about every idea has ever been hatched: a simultaneous need to cure boredom and make money.Let me take you back more than a generation, to the Bears-Patriots Super Bowl following ...

A few years ago I was in Vegas for a visit toward the end of the summer. That's how you know it was for work: No one goes to Vegas for pleasure at the end of the summer. On a Tuesday afternoon I went to lunch with a bunch of veteran bettors, ...

If not for one of the most popular and powerful athletes of the past decade (who also happens to have created an influential charity) admitting he was a fraud; if not for the best player on the world's favorite college football team (who also ...