AUSTIN – The most important number of the 2026 NFL season may not be a point spread. It is $36.8 billion, the amount a new industry analysis projects will change hands on prediction markets tied to pro football this year, a figure that would, for the first time, top what every legal sportsbook in America … Read more
HOUSTON – The nurse who takes your blood pressure and the doctor who reads your chart may have helped pay for their training the same way a bettor plays an NFL Sunday. A new survey says a growing share of the country’s future healthcare workers are betting to pay for school, and Texas, with the … Read more
AUSTIN – Texas has never legalized sports betting. The Legislature has voted it down, the lieutenant governor has buried it, and no referendum has ever reached the state’s voters. And yet DraftKings and FanDuel, the two companies that define American sports betting, are live in Texas right now, taking Texans’ money on the Cowboys, the … Read more