Sports Betting Regulation and Integrity. Within the last week a college baseball coach has been dismissed, and other college athletes and coaches are being investigated in connection with their prohibited participation in sports betting and the use of insider information.  This challenge to the integrity of the games and of sports betting may slow the […]

Learning from Poker Poker can teach you many life lessons, including about decision-making, patience, risk, controlling your emotions, and strategy.  To excel at poker, you must be able to make decisions based on incomplete information and continuously adjust your strategy based on new information and changing circumstances. What looked like a good starting hand can […]

The Growth of Sports Betting. Sports betting has experienced significant growth in the United States in recent years. In the past, sports betting was only legal in a few states, such as Nevada. However, in 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned a federal ban on sports betting, which allowed individual states to […]

Props 26 and 27:  Dueling Ballot Initiatives. Will we be Delivered? Remember the classic scene from Deliverance?  Drew invites the backwoods kid with the banjo to play together, but despite their mutual talent for music in the end the kid eerily looks away and refuses to shake his hand?  Well get ready for the California […]