Art Manteris’ memoir traces his decades running iconic Nevada sportsbooks, early efforts to expand legal betting nationwide.

In February 1990, world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, boasting a record of 37 wins and no defeats, faced up against James ‘Buster’ Douglas in Tokyo, in what every boxing expert agreed would be ...

The wild popularity of Super Bowl prop bets was ignited 40 years ago at Caesars Palace, where bookmaker Art Manteris posted a ...

Sports betting legalization has led to a totally different paradigm in this country when it comes to gambling. What once lived in the shadows is now commonplace. That’s why it makes sense that a show ...

Mathew Bowyer, the illegal bookmaker who took Ippei Mizuhara’s bets, has said that plenty of professional athletes wager on sports. The bookie is facing sentencing on April 4 after pleading guilty to ...

Sebastian Maniscalco winces a little when you ask him about the Chicago Bears. A team once 4-2 just suffered one of the most embarrassing stretches in franchise history. The only thing worse than the ...

It was a round of poker, fittingly, that upended Mathew Bowyer’s life in spectacular fashion. While he preferred to sate his appetite for risk by playing baccarat, poker had served as his formative ...

Joseph M. Perna had stood before a judge before. In 2016, he was sentenced alongside his father, a reputed Lucchese mob boss, on state racketeering charges that would put him in prison for nearly a ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani to a 10-year, $700 million contract in Dec. 2023, but just a few months later, a multi-million dollar scandal involving his now fired interpreter came to ...