Stern softening rules on gambling
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NEW YORK - David Stern acknowledged yesterday more than half of his 56 referees had violated NBA policies about casino gambling, but said none will be punished because he felt the rules were outdated.
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THE World Trade Organisations (WTO) has told the US to dump its ban on offshore Internet gambling. Currently the US does not allow its citizens to place bets in those nasty foreign online casinos and the tiny
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NEW YORK - David Stern would not want to be in charge of a league that needs barriers to separate fans from players. Nor would he follow the lead of European soccer and order games to be played in empty arenas.
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A comeback for Internet gambling may be in the works.
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A federal judge ruled that National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern doesn&#39;t have the final say in punishing players for behavior during games, upholding an arbitrator&#39;s
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(InfoWorld) - A law prohibiting U.S. financial institutions from processing payments to online gambling sites hasn't stopped U.S. employees from visiting sports betting sites, according to cybersecurity vendor ScanSafe. Attempted visits to online gambling Web sites by employees of ScanSafe's U.S. customers were up 77 percent in the week between Jan. 23 and 31. The Super Bowl, the National Football League's championship game, is Sunday. ScanSafe provides a Web-blocking service to large businesses, and it examines 6 billion Web requests a month. In October, President George Bush signed into law a measure prohibiting financial institutions from processing payments to gambling sites. The government has until mid-July to develop the processing regulations for financial institutions. But some online gambling sites have begun telling U.S. customers that financial institutions are already distancing themselves. On Wednesday, PokerRoom.com told U.S. customers to cash out. "The remaining companies that process cashouts from PokerRoom.com to our players in the United States have contacted us to say that in the near future they will no longer facilitate these transactions," said a message on PokerRoom's home page. "As such, we would advise all American players who have not cashed out already to do so immediately." The gambling provision, amended by Congress onto a ports security bill in late September, has had no impact on the number of people visiting gambling Web sites, said Dan Nadir, vice president for product strategy at ScanSafe. ScanSafe doesn't track whether those people completed bets, he said. "We suspected [the law] wouldn't have much of an impact," Nadir said. Some gambling sites will develop alternative payment mechanisms, he said. ScanSafe didn't provide the raw numbers of visits to gambling sites this past week, but gambling represented about 3.4 percent of the content it blocked for clients in 2006. By comparison, 15.1 percent of the blocked content was chat or instant messaging, 14.6 percent was advertising, 7.2 percent was Web mail, and 3.9 percent was pornography. Visits to sports betting sites such as Bodog.com were common this past week, Nadir said. About 53 percent of the U.S. visits to gambling sites ScanSafe observed this past week were to sports betting sites as opposed to casino or lottery sites. Bodog didn't immediately respond to an e-mail asking if its business has been hurt by the U.S. law. About 84 percent of ScanSafe's customers blocked employee access to gambling sites. Companies block employees from gambling sites for a couple of reasons: because they don't trust that gambling sites are safe, and because they don't want employees playing games on company time, Nadir said.
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A report on gambling in the UK, which is expected to influence plans for super-casinos, is to be published.
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A House panel voted Thursday to crack down on the &#36;12 billion Internet gambling industry by applying federal prohibitions to games like online poker, blackjack and roulette.
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By Matt Richtel and Thomas Crampton  Al Baker contributed reporting. *  Broadening the U.S. attack on Internet gambling, law enforcement agents in New York have arrested the chairman of Sportingbet, which offers online sports betting and is traded on the London Stock Exchange.
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Rolling the dice at a craps table or wagering a paycheck playing poker may not be the most rational use of money, but one casino operator is hoping investors will find its stock a better bet.
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Tessa Jowell will next week announce plans to further limit the number of new casinos, the BBC learns.
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David Stern, the N.B.A. commissioner, is expected to hold a news conference this week to discuss the leagueâs involvement in the F.B.I.âs gambling investigation of the referee Tim Donaghy.
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The government announced it is cracking down on South Koreans who have set up Internet gambling websites overseas to escape a domestic drive against betting.
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Proposals for changing the gambling industry in Britain are published by the government.
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A cross-party committee of MPs and peers had recommended the government reconsider plans to limit slot machines that offer million-pound prizes to casinos of 5,000 sq metres or more.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The federal crackdown on online gambling has tied up the funds of thousands of U.S. patrons of two of the largest services. The crackdown on BetOnSports, which no longer takes sports wagers from the USA, and Neteller - an Internet payment service popular among gamblers - is intended to put a dent in the $10.6 billion industry.
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Betting company William Hill has announced that it would cease accepting casino or poker bets from clients in the United States.