5 February 2026
An arbitrator ordered Miami to pay Terry Rozier his full $26.6 million salary, rejecting the Heat’s escrow plan while his federal betting case continues.
Super Bowl LX week is colliding with prediction market growth, new sportsbook “combo” contracts, and fresh legal deadlines.
The NFL will not allow prediction market commercials during Super Bowl LX, keeping event-contract platforms off the national broadcast. Sportsbooks will still be able to advertise.
Three athletes have been issued bans and suspended bans from their respective track and field events after being found guilty of betting on their teammates in competition. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), a Monaco-based organization designed to combat doping and address other forms of ethical misconduct.
Hawthorne’s top executive skipped an Illinois Racing Board meeting as horsemen demanded clarity on finances and unpaid obligations.
Authorities in Israel have apprehended 17 individuals connected to second-division football team FC Kiryat Yam after accusations of match-fixing and money laundering. Current players and senior employees at the club were implicated, while there is also suspected involvement of an organized crime group.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) request to restrict prop bet markets on college sports events has been rejected by the Missouri Gaming Commission (MGC), for the time-being. The NCAA’s request does not seek to allow or prohibit college athletes from betting, which is already banned under NCAA rules.
Hawthorne has canceled racing for a third weekend as a frozen bank account leaves more than $1 million in unpaid purses and bounced checks.
Britain is facing an illegal stream epidemic, a campaigning group argues, which is also exposing millions of Britons to unregulated, offshore betting firms. The national 2024-25 report from the Campaign for Fairer Gambling (CFG) suggests illegal streams of sports events in Britain have more than doubled to 3.6 billion.
Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people, including NCAA players, in a wide-ranging point-shaving scheme tied to college basketball betting.
