Steve Wynn, owner of Wynn Las Vegas (among other casinos), has a lot of lawyers on retainer. Lawyers that don’t file aren’t working. Therefore, Steve Wynn’s lawyers file. A lot. Ask Charles Barkley.

(Then again, this type of work isn’t cheap; please don’t look directly into the teeth)
This week’s litigants? The […]

An extraordinarily detailed dossier compiled by top bookmakers and delivered to top tennis authorities alleges dozens of matches since 2002 have been fixed by Russian and Eastern European crime organizations, including eight at Wimbledon (where play starts tomorrow). Four of those Wimbledon matches occurred in the men’s draw last year.

Tennis authorities (including the International […]

Professional gambler Haralabos Voulgaris, one of the few people in the world that makes a living betting on the NBA. He also moonlights as a professional poker player, with almost $2,000,000 in career tournament earnings.

So when Voulgaris said all the recent game-fixing allegations had him spooked about continuing to ply his trade toward the […]

Sasha Vujacic may be one of the toasts of the town in L.A. at the moment, but the Lakers guard should steer clear of Vegas for the time being.

Darren Rovell of CNBC rolls up news that Vujacic’s meaningless last-second shot Thursday night may have cost bettors up to $100 million in losses.

Poor Tom George. He’s tried to score Final Four tickets through the NCAA’s Final Four lottery for years now and never won. Each time, he has to cough up a fee (now $6) to Ticketmaster for the privilege of entering the lottery for the chance to be overcharged for tickets. You can’t […]

An IRS seminar held in the MGM Grand last week (!) somehow turned topics to legalizing sports books across the nation. We’re fairly certain IRS employees don’t set this policy, so it seems an odd time to bring up the topic. Still, it’s nice to have a totally unbiased discussion about taxable income, […]

The latest episode of the NFL’s famous charade of We Have Nothing To Do With Gambling comes from Houston, where casino proprietor and minority Houston Texans owner Tilman Fertitta finally cashed out.

Fertitta, part of the original Texans ownership group, wanted no part of leaving, and said as much.

Tim Donaghy worked games from 1994 to 2007, until an FBI report revealed that he had a gambling problem and was fixing NBA games.

A new report shows that Donaghy may have bet on more than 100 games, including 14 last season.

In the game of hockey, two opposing teams try to win by outscoring the other. Of course, unwritten in the rules is that late in the game, the two teams will usually fight each other for the smallest reason. So it’s no wonder that the Democrats and Republicans have picked NHL arenas for their national […]

It’s no free Taco Bell taco, but it’s equally edible. A Massachusetts furniture store will rebate all furniture sales in the next month 100 percent if the Boston Red Sox repeat this year with a World Series sweep.

(Jonathan Papelbon: now with fabric protection)
Jordan’s Furniture had the same offer last year, only it would have […]