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
Kalshi has continued to take sports wagers from Texas residents despite a cease-and-desist letter from the state attorney general, in a federal-state preemption fight that has effectively legalized online sports betting in a state whose Legislature has rejected every attempt to authorize it. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to close the loophole. He cannot.
A Lubbock judge is set to decide within days whether Brendan Sorsby suits up for Texas Tech this season, after the quarterback admitted to a four-year, $90,000 betting habit that touched his own former team.