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
New York, Tennessee and Maryland posted record June sports-betting handle while Texas, with no legal market, collected nothing.
AUSTIN – A growing body of research suggests that when a state legalizes sports betting, some of the money wagered comes straight out of the grocery budget. A new study puts a number on it, and the finding lands in the middle of Texas’s long-running fight over whether to legalize the practice at all. The … Read more
Argentina and Messi Come to AT&T Stadium. Texas Still Has No Legal Sportsbook. ARLINGTON – The defending World Cup champions arrive in North Texas on Monday, with Lionel Messi chasing history and a noon kickoff against Austria that could decide who wins the group. It is the kind of event that fills sportsbooks everywhere. In … Read more