FOX’s limited choices on betting
‘Where there’s a hit, there’s a writ’ runs the old saying and it has never been more true than with the legal spat between FOX Corp. and Flutter Entertainment over the stake in FanDuel. To briefly recall, the dispute centers on the right to buy an 18.6% stake in FanDuel that FOX Corp. was granted […]
Data deals point to NCAA betting shift
Two deals by the major sports data providers point to NCAA being the next major field of data competition, suggest sources. Recent deals involving Sportradar and Genius Sports have a significance for the market for College sports data, and particularly College football. First we have Sportradar’s deal with Bowl Season, which coordinates the various College […]
Perspective: Sports betting makes fleeting SXSW appearance
AUSTIN, Texas — There were sessions about tech, of course, and startups and investing and finance 3.0; film, media and music as well as summits about space, psychedelics, the cannabis industry and the future of work. But this correspondent had to search to find the subject of sports-betting so credit to PointsBet and Sportico which […]
DraftKings 10-K reveals true levels of loss
“DraftKings has a history of losses and we may continue to incur losses in the future.” So runs the warnings section of DraftKings’ SEC results document. It is a standard line, but it is worth bearing in mind, all the same when looking at the company’s bottom line. For 2021 as a whole, DraftKings notched […]
Expect more zero suspension-betting next NFL season
The NFL Wildcard Playoff game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Cincinnati Bengals held a special significance for the betting audience if they had but known about it. It was the game chosen by PointsBet to try zero suspensions on NFL betting on key markets including the moneyline and the spread. It was, the company […]