WAYNE PARRY
FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2019, file photo, people watching the first NFL game of the season in the sports betting lounge at Bally's casino in Atlantic City N.J. The NFL draft starting on Thursday, April 23, 2020, is expected to be the most heavily wagered-on draft ever, mainly because virtually all major sporting events have been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)
Virus shutdowns will likely make NFL draft most bet on ever

By Wayne Parry Apr. 22, 2020 10:55 AM EDT
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — For those who haven't mastered the odds of

In this Sept. 5, 2019 photo, a gambler places sports bets at Bally's casino in Atlantic City, N.J. New Jersey gambling regulators have approved wagering on the XFL, becoming the sixth state to approve bets on the revived football league that last operated in 2001. Its season begins Feb. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Betting could be 'X' factor for new pro football league

By Wayne Parry Feb. 07, 2020 03:10 AM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Knowing its season begins less than a week after one

In this Jan. 29, 2020 photo, a man makes a bet on the upcoming Super Bowl at Bally's casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Business was brisk at sports books around the country on Super Bowl Sunday, with customers risking money on everything from the coin toss at the start of the game, to the color of the Gatorade dumped on the winning coach, Kansas City's Andy Reid, at the end of it. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
$154.7 million bet on Super Bowl at Nevada sports books

By Wayne Parry Feb. 04, 2020 03:02 PM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Gamblers in Nevada wagered $154.7 million on this

In this Jan. 29, 2020 photo, a man makes a bet on the upcoming Super Bowl at Bally's casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Business was brisk at sports books around the country on Super Bowl Sunday, with customers risking money on everything from the coin toss at the start of the game, to the color of the Gatorade dumped on the winning coach, Kansas City's Andy Reid, at the end of it. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Super Bowl betting brings big business to sports books

By Wayne Parry Feb. 03, 2020 08:18 PM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Business was brisk at sports books around the

In this Jan. 29, 2020, photo, a paper inside Bally's casino in Atlantic City N.J., lists some of the many "proposition" bets that gamblers may make on the Super Bowl, wagering whether a particular outcome during the game will occur or not. Gambling industry officials expect Sunday's Super Bowl to be among the most heavily wagered-on championship games ever. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
How to bet on the Super Bowl as legal sport betting spreads

By Wayne Parry Jan. 31, 2020 02:56 AM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — With legal sports betting continuing to spread in

In this Sept. 5, 2019 photo, a gambler places sports bets at Bally's casino in Atlantic City, N.J. New Jersey gambling regulators have approved wagering on the XFL, becoming the sixth state to approve bets on the revived football league that last operated in 2001. Its season begins Feb. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
NJ OKs XFL bets, 6th state to allow wagers on revived league

By Wayne Parry Jan. 22, 2020 11:49 AM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators have authorized

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2019, file photo, Oliver Luck, XFL commissioner and CEO, makes comments during a news conference in Arlington, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. Gambling regulators and sports books in several U.S. states are preparing to allow gamblers to bet on XFL games once the league’s season begins in early February 2020. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
After Super Bowl, sports books preparing for XFL bets

By Wayne Parry Jan. 10, 2020 02:32 AM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — While many sports fans are picking NFL playoff teams

School buses wait for students to exit at the end of the school day, Monday afternoon. On Friday, their football team was playing Camden High School when a shooting occurred that she a young child to the hospital. Pleasantville High School in Pleasantville, NJ on Monday, November 18, 2019. (Miguel Martinez/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
Amid new grief, schools finish playoff game on Eagles’ field

By Wayne Parry Nov. 20, 2019 09:29 AM EST
A 10-year-old New Jersey boy who was shot at a high school football game last

In this Sept. 4, 2019 photo, Andy Lanni of Oceanview, N.J. checks the odds at the sports book in the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, N.J. As the second NFL season begins following a U.S. Supreme Court decision clearing the way for legal sports betting, the industry is growing larger and ever-more mobile in the U.S. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Larger US sports betting market races for (online) end zone

By Wayne Parry Sep. 04, 2019 02:50 PM EDT
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — As the second NFL season following a U.S. Supreme Court

In a photo taken Friday, April 19, 2019, a man poses for The Associated Press in his home in Plainfield, N.J. The man has cleared his gambling addiction for 22 years by being a member of a 12-step program. He says he has seen the rise in television advertisements for gambling web sites. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Bet responsibly? A struggle for some as sportsbook ads widen

By Wayne Parry Jun. 03, 2019 01:43 PM EDT
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The tagline makes the solution sound so simple: "Gamble

FILE - This June 14, 2018 file photo shows bettors waiting to make wagers on sporting events at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City hours after it began accepting sports bets. It's hard enough for compulsive gamblers to stop betting. Now, in a growing number of places, they're being bombarded with ads urging them to bet on sports. It's a temptation they didn't face a year ago. And it's raising questions as to how tightly regulated sports betting advertising should be in the United States. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Bet responsibly? A struggle for some as sportsbook ads widen

By Wayne Parry Jun. 01, 2019 12:07 PM EDT
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The tagline makes the solution sound so simple: "Gamble

Bet responsibly? A struggle for some as sportsbook ads widen

By Wayne Parry Jun. 01, 2019 10:32 AM EDT
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The tagline makes the solution sound so simple: "Gamble

This March 8, 2019 photo shows a fan watching the first day of the March Madness college basketball tournament at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City N.J. Figures released by state gambling regulators on Thursday, April 25, 2019 show more than $106 million was wagered on the NCAA basketball championship tournament in New Jersey _ three times the amount wagered on the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
March Madness bets 3 times higher than Super Bowl bets in NJ

By Wayne Parry Apr. 25, 2019 04:52 PM EDT
SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — Football's championship game may have been super, but gamblers

In this March 8, 2019 photo, a clerk counts money wagered by a customer at the sports betting lounge at the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City N.J. Figures released on March 13, 2019 show New Jersey gamblers have wagered almost $2 billion on sporting events since it started nine months ago. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Nearly $2 billion in New Jersey sport bets in 9 months

By Wayne Parry Mar. 13, 2019 03:56 PM EDT
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Nearly $2 billion has been wagered on sporting events in

Former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski, now part of an ownership group in the Arena Football League, speaking at a news conference Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, in Atlantic City, N.J., about the new expansion team that will play there beginning in April. The Arena League and the Alliance of American Football are among football leagues drawing action from sports bettors this year. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Other football leagues seek boost from legal sports betting

By Wayne Parry Feb. 21, 2019 03:41 PM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The National Football League is king when it comes to

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2019, file photo, logos for the Alliance of American Football, right, and the Orlando Apollos adorn an end zone pylon before an AAF football game between the Apollos and the Atlanta Legends on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, in Orlando, Fla. Almost no one knows the players, and there’s virtually no history to look back on. But that’s not stopping people from making bets on America’s newest professional football league, the Alliance of American Football. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
Gamblers bet on new US football league despite no history

By Wayne Parry Feb. 13, 2019 04:10 PM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Almost no one knows the players and there's virtually no

El quarterback Tom Brady, derecha, festeja con sus compañeros de los Patriots de Nueva Inglaterra tras vencer a los Chiefs de Kansas City en el partido por el campeonato de la Conferencia Americana de la NFL, el domingo 20 de enero de 2019, en Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Foto/Charlie Neibergall)
Prop bets popular for Super Bowl, but NFL wants them gone

By Wayne Parry Jan. 21, 2019 04:24 PM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Many Americans in places where sports betting is legal for

FILE-In this Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 file photo, New Orleans Saints wide receiver Tommylee Lewis (11) works for a catch against Los Angeles Rams defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman (23) during the second half the NFL football NFC championship game, in New Orleans. The Rams won 26-23. New Orleans Saints fans have found some pretty creative ways to express their displeasure over the infamous “no call” during last weekend’s Saints-Rams championship game. But their newest tactic may make the loudest statement - a Super Bowl boycott. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
Sportsbook credits Saints bets over uncalled penalty

By Wayne Parry Jan. 21, 2019 03:34 PM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A sportsbook in New Jersey is offering betting credits for

NJ probes $1M sports gambling tourney with bet timing issues

By Wayne Parry Jan. 14, 2019 02:02 PM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators are looking into a sports

FILE This Nov. 20, 2018 file photo shows a scrolling video board with basketball scores reflected in the ceiling of the new sports book at Resorts Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. The race to legalize sports betting is on now that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed it in all 50 states, but will it provide enough extra tax revenue to make much of a difference for schools, roads or pension debt? (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Sports betting may seem easy. It's not. Here's why

By Wayne Parry Jan. 02, 2019 12:17 PM EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Wanna bet on sports? First, make sure you