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Sports betting is legal in the United States. The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to overturn PAPSA, a law in place since 1992, has far-reaching implications for professional sports and creates the potential for legalized and regulated online gambling. "The legalization of sports...

While legalized marijuana represents a burgeoning industry and tax boon for states, its finacial impact could be eclipsed by the potential of legalized sports betting. Estimates of the size of the illegal sports betting market in America range from the American Gaming Association's figure of $...

It looks like another losing season for the New York Knicks. More than halfway through their 2017-2018 schedule, the team ranks 11th in the NBA’s Eastern Conference with a 24-38 record. If they stay on pace, they’ll finish their fifth consecutive losing season and potentially miss their...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s YouTube is set to use the 2017 MLB World Series as the platform for its first national advertising campaign. The campaign will promote its new skinny bundle package YouTube TV. YouTube will run commercials for YouTube TV during the fall classic,...

The Detroit Tigers spiraled out of control this year, on pace for their worst record in more than 10 years. Chris Ilitch, president and CEO of Ilitch Holdings, has remained quiet since assuming leadership of the team after the death of his father, Mike, in February. With that, I'm sticking my...

Baseball fans enjoyed a classic All-Star Game Tuesday night that was capped off by a dramatic extra-inning, game-winning home run by the American League’s Robinson Cano. Cano’s big hit led the American League to its fifth straight All-Star Game victory. For superstitious traders who are...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is doubling down on live streaming after introducing several new video features within the past few weeks, including autoplay of news feed videos, a larger format for vertical videos, picture-in-picture video and a Facebook video app for TV. Facebook And Monetization Last...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) wants to take you in for the ball game. According to reports earlier this week, the company is in talks to live stream one Major League Baseball game per week in the 2017 season, a move to keep users engaged a bit longer and help boost ad revenue. In April 2016, Facebook...

The social media space had a mixed year, with Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) shares cooling off after a stellar 2015 amid the fake news and ad metrics scandals. Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) found itself in a mess, and Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, is preparing to offer its shares to the public. Even amid...

While the cyclical consumer product market in general was trading up around 2.5 percent above the S&P 500 Monday, the apparel and accessories industry furthered the gap, outperforming the S&P as a whole by nearly 3.5 percent. The sector was led by G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ: GIII)...

The north side of Chicago waited more than a century for their baseball team to be crowned champions. The Chicago Cubs needed an extra inning and a seven games to defeat the Cleveland Indians in what could go down as one of the greatest games in history. The last time the Cubs were champions...

As baseball fans gear up for game three of the World Series, currently tied at 1–1, tickets in Chicago are shattering records on the resale market. Super Bowl prices are popping up as the Cubs try to break its 108-year-old curse. Friday marks the Cubs first Fall Classic game at home since...

108 years is a long time. In one of the most prolific games this postseason, Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers fended off a late-game surge from the Washington Nationals to clinch a berth in the 2016 National League Championship Series. They'll now face the Chicago Cubs for rights...

The Chicago Cubs are going for history this October looking for their first World Series victory since 1908, and fans will be paying historic prices to be a part of the action at Wrigley Field. The National League Division Series will begin next Friday, October 7 on the north side of Chicago....

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) have long competed with each other as two of the largest and most successful social media networks on the planet. Twitter shareholders are painfully aware of the fact that Twitter has often come out with the short end of the stick competing...