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  • July 30, 2026

    Exec Who Tried To Buy English Soccer Club Denies Fraud Rap

    A Florida executive who once tried to buy England's Everton soccer club on Thursday denied new charges accusing him of engaging in a $500 million fraud on lenders, before the judge hearing his case declined to adjourn his October trial. 

  • July 30, 2026

    Kalshi Sports Offerings Appear On Shaky Ground At 6th Circ.

    A Sixth Circuit panel looked askance at Kalshi's push to have its sports event contracts shielded from state gambling regulators Thursday, pointedly questioning the prediction market giant about the difference between its offerings and traditional sports bets.

  • July 30, 2026

    Europe Soccer Group To Boycott FIFA Over Investor Sale Plan

    The soccer federation representing 55 European countries announced Thursday that it will boycott World Cup competition in protest of FIFA's plan to sell billions of dollars in shares of the sport's premier international tournament to private investors.

  • July 29, 2026

    CFTC Must 'Start Afresh' On Prediction Market Regs, States Say

    A group of 44 attorneys general warned the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to "start afresh" on its proposed rule for prediction markets or risk treading on state authority over gambling, while prediction market platforms backed the rule's plan to permit many sports-focused event contracts.

  • July 29, 2026

    Trail Cam Co. Says T-Mobile Broke Tech Migration Promises

    T-Mobile is trying to plow forward with a plan to shift Tactacam-branded "trail cameras" that operate on cellular networks to a new technology even though all the tests have failed, which could make millions of cams useless, according to the company that owns those cameras.

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