HOUSTON – Two of the last four World Series champions play in Texas, and this summer they are chasing October together. The Houston Astros and Texas Rangers are running side by side in the American League West, one of the tightest division races in baseball. The one thing neither team’s fans can do is legally … Read more
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
New York, Tennessee and Maryland posted record June sports-betting handle while Texas, with no legal market, collected nothing.
The state’s programs top the 2026 college football futures boards at Bovada, and not one of those bets is legal inside Texas.
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
AUSTIN – The loudest new voice in the fight over gambling in Texas does not belong to a casino magnate or a crusading politician. It belongs to the state’s doctors, and they are worried about teenagers. The Texas Medical Association, the state’s largest physician group, is pressing lawmakers to impose an age restriction on prediction … Read more