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Both Polymarket and Kalshi are official partners of the NHL, while Polymarket is MLB’s exclusive prediction-market partner and Kalshi is an “authorized prediction market” under MLB’s integrity framework, which has allowed it to do a number of team-level deals. The NBA and NFL have yet to embrace prediction markets. Sources tell FOS the former is closing in on agreements, while the latter remains a staunch holdout.
Kyrie Irving: I’ll take care of his fine. Aaron Wilson: #Texans Pro Bowl middle linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair fined $11,492 for unauthorized message on eye black Sunday vs. #Bills Hind Rajab was a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli military firing several bullets along with six family members in Gaza City on January 29, 2024. Audio recordings of Hind calling for help sparked international outrage. In August, Israeli military confirmed soldiers fired on the vehicle and ordered an internal criminal investigation into the incident. Al-Shaair was previously fined $11,593
Adam Schefter: The NFL, MLB, MLS, NBA and NHL joined with their respective players’ unions today to crack down on betting-related harassment of athletes, coaches and families. “Threatening the safety of an athlete or their family members over a sports bet crosses a bright ethical and criminal
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N3on: You think if you could have made the NFL? Norman Powell: Yeah. At UCLA, the coaches wanted me to try out for the team, but I'm cool with all the… money is not great cuz it's not fully guaranteed. This the health insurance isn't that great. So, I don't rock with how they don't take care of their players in the NFL after retirement. You know, all the CTE stuff. Sweeping it under the rug and stuff like that. So, yeah. I don't mess with the whole industry around football. Even though I love watching it, like I don't like how they treat the players.
“The NBA has circulated a proposal to everybody,” says a prediction-market industry executive who expects announcements before the end of this month. “I would be shocked if they don’t try to announce something before the season. They’re not going to want this news to come out a week before the first game.” What sources are telling FOS lines up with what Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour suggested to RotoWire earlier this week: “you should expect announcements very soon, at least from one of the two remaining major leagues.” The NBA and NFL are the two primary holdouts in U.S. pro sports, and FOS reported last month that the NFL will not have any prediction-market deals in place for the upcoming season.
Thanasis Antetokounmpo: "A lot of these guys are not in the professional leagues is because they either want to be in the NBA or don't want to play professionally. Which is an insane concept because playing basketball, you have such a big privilege because basketball is a global game. It's not like the NFL. The only way you can be a football player is the NFL. It's nowhere else. But basketball, and making a living, you can go anywhere. You can go to Europe, Australia, Asia, Italy, Spain, anywhere you want to go if you're good at it."
The ACC is following the lead of the Big Ten and SEC in putting a curb on coaches from adding players to their rosters who have declared for NFL, NBA or WNBA drafts or signed pro contracts. The conference’s board of directors voted unanimously on Thursday to direct ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips to throw the book at would-be Lane Kiffins and Will Wades among the coaching ranks.
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Nicole Auerbach: NEWS: The SEC bans not just NFL players but NBA and G League too:
Mike Vorkunov: The NBA has had 13 control sales since 2019. That's 13 times a team has been sold and changed control owners. That blows away the NFL (3) and MLB (5). Lakers appreciated 25% in a year. Timberwolves tripled in value in 5 years. NBA record price nearly sextupled in 7 years.
Wilson said the Aces have all the pieces of a championship-winning team, but they themselves are their own worst enemy. She is using a saying that Aces minority owner and former NFL great Tom Brady passed down to her to help get the team through the rough stretches in the season. “I think some of the toughest part is just getting out of our own way,” Wilson said. “Sometimes I feel like we’re in our own way of games and possessions, where if we just step aside and really see what we have, the greatness that we have, the chips will fall where they may. But Tom Brady would always say that you’re never focused on your other championships, you’re focused on the next one.”
Trading card company Panini has made explosive new allegations in its three-year-old antitrust litigation against rival Fanatics. In a Thursday court filing, Panini accused Fanatics of illicitly obtaining confidential Panini information—including license details—that the sports business power then allegedly used to win exclusive trading card rights to the NBA, the NBPA, the NFLPA and the NFL. In June, Fanatics moved to seal the two new allegations, but a magistrate judge earlier this week ordered the secrecy restriction lifted. Panini is asking the court to allow it to amend the complaint by adding these new allegations, which were revealed for the first time Thursday.