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Following in Florida’s Footsteps: Hub-and-Spoke Sports Betting Could Be Coming to Wisconsin.
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October 28, 2025
Following in Florida’s Footsteps: Hub-and-Spoke Sports Betting Could Be Coming to Wisconsin.
By: John Mikuta
Statewide online sports betting may soon be coming to Wisconsin. Last week, a bipartisan group of Wisconsin legislators introduced a bill, LRB-4723/1, which would legalize online sports betting in the state.[1] If the bill is enacted into law, Wisconsin would become the 32nd state to allow online sports betting statewide. Wisconsin has not yet enacted any statewide sports betting legislation. In fact, Wisconsin’s Constitution generally prohibits the legislature from authorizing “gambling in any form.”[2] Wisconsin law also provides that anyone who “[m]akes a bet” is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.[3] The proposed bill gets over these hurdles by excluding from the definition of “bet” any online event or sports wager made by a person physically in Wisconsin, so long…
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As Predicted, Prediction Markets Dominate G2E Discussions
October 13, 2025
As Predicted, Prediction Markets Dominate G2E Discussions
By: Sara Dalsheim
Every year at the biggest gaming conference in the world, G2E, there is one topic on everyone’s lips. In past years, these topics have been legalized online sports wagering, daily fantasy sports, legalized iGaming, expansions of legalized online gaming, social gaming, and sweepstakes casinos. This year it was no different; the topic being – prediction markets. With the growing popularity of exchanges such as Kalshi…
Practice, Study Hall and Sports Betting? NCAA Set to Allow College Athletes to Bet on Professional Sports
October 10, 2025
Practice, Study Hall and Sports Betting? NCAA Set to Allow College Athletes to Bet on Professional Sports
By: Michelle Cohen
First came the name, image, and likeness deals, and now…sports betting. Following a trend of eliminating certain restrictions on collegiate student-athletes, the NCAA’s Division I Administrative Committee just approved a proposal that removes the ban on student-athletes and athletic department staff engaging in sports betting on professional sports. Division II and Division III officials must also adopt the proposal before it can become effective. Assuming…
Say it Ain’t So, Oh!
April 3, 2024
Say it Ain’t So, Oh!
By: James Trusty
The Shohei Ohtani betting scandal has receded from view for the moment, but its brief surfacing last week provided fundamental guidance on how not to manage a crisis faced by a professional athlete, while also giving rise to some serious issues for Major League Baseball (“MLB”) to address in the near future. Lawyers and publicists in the niche world of crisis management unofficially swear a…
A Positive Result of Legalized Sports Betting is Solution for Betting Corruption and Match Fixing
March 26, 2024
A Positive Result of Legalized Sports Betting is Solution for Betting Corruption and Match Fixing
By: Sara Dalsheim
This month, Sportradar released its “Betting Corruption and Match-Fixing Report” (the “Report”) from the company’s Integrity Services Division[1] The Report covered approximately 850,000 sporting events and matches across 70 sports. Sportradar identified a total of 1,329 suspicious matches in 2023, in 11 sports in 105 countries. This represented a marginal increase over the 1,212 suspicious matches Sportradar detected in 2022. 99.5% of sporting events displayed…
Ifrah Law Interviews David Purdum on Sports Integrity
March 22, 2024
Ifrah Law Interviews David Purdum on Sports Integrity
By: Jake Gray
The stakes have never been higher for sports leagues and athletes to maintain the integrity of their contests. The mere possibility of thrown games, points shaven, or dishonest referee calls turns many bettors into pseudo-detectives, scrutinizing outcomes on behalf of their lost wagers. We interviewed David Purdum, an investigative journalist who writes on the sports betting industry for ESPN, for his thoughts on sports integrity…
Are Lottery Courier Services the Next Big Thing?
March 19, 2024
Are Lottery Courier Services the Next Big Thing?
By: Steven Eichorn
On February 15, 2024, DraftKings announced that it would acquire lottery app Jackpocket (which is a lottery courier services provider- i.e. it enables customers to obtain lottery tickets such as PowerBall and MegaMillions directly from their mobile app) for about $750 million in cash and stock. The company said it would pay about 55% of the consideration in cash and the remainder in common stock….
Investment Giant Clears State Regs, Gains Major iGaming Equity Stake
March 4, 2024
Investment Giant Clears State Regs, Gains Major iGaming Equity Stake
By: Jeff Ifrah
The world’s largest alternative asset manager was poised to make a major move in the iGaming space by investing in a leading geolocation company. The financial pathway for the envisioned investment was clear, but a transaction would require multiple state-level approvals. Ifrah Law drew on its deep experience in gaming law and working with regulators nationwide to lower the client’s approval burden and keep the…
