The ATP suspended Italians Potito Starace and Daniele Bracciali on Saturday for making bets — some as little as $7 — on tennis matches involving other players.
The United States faces a token $21 million in annual trade sanctions as a result of its online betting ban, the World Trade Organization said Friday in awarding Antigua and Barbuda the right to target U.S. services, copyrights and trademarks.
The three largest Internet companies have agreed to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations they took ads for illegal gambling, the U.S. Attorney for eastern Missouri said Wednesday.
He learned at the knee of his bookmaker father in New York, took street bets in his teens, and partied with Las Vegas high-rollers. He made millions of dollars as a self-proclaimed offshore sports gambling "pioneer," flirted with Internet gambling, and was pinched by the FBI.
With time running out, the tiny Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda holds the cards in a dispute over Internet gambling that could ultimately cost the United States billions of dollars.
An illegal sports gambling ring run out of a high-stakes poker room in an Atlantic City casino was busted Wednesday, authorities said, and 18 people were arrested, including four with mob ties.
A divisional winner of the World Series of Poker was arrested with 15 other men during a gambling raid that yielded almost $20,000, police said.
Rick Tocchet's involvement in a gambling ring wasn't as deep as initial reports suggested, but damaging enough to keep the Phoenix Coyotes' assistant coach out of the NHL for at least a few more months.
Internet poker players are raising the stakes in Washington.
It's probably not a good time to make a wager on the future of off-track betting in New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city may shut down the money-losing operation.
Tennis officials are examining 150 professional matches considered to be suspicious, including some at Grand Slams, dating back to 2002.
A women's tennis match drew suspicion for unusual betting patterns, and the WTA Tour was investigating Thursday — two months after the men's tour began a probe into gambling on a match.
The virtual world "Second Life" has banned gambling, a cautious legal maneuver that could dent revenue and spark anger among fans.
The United States will use a World Trade Organization procedure to clarify its ban on online gambling, a U.S. trade representative said Friday.
The ban on Internet gambling enacted last fall would be overturned under legislation proposed Thursday by a senior House Democrat, but the bill faces long odds in Congress.
Though payment processor Neteller PLC is the latest and largest such company to pull out of the lucrative but illegal U.S. online gambling market, industry observers said other e-wallet sites would come forward to take its place.
Two founders of a company that processes Internet gambling transactions were arrested and charged with funneling billions of dollars in gambling proceeds to overseas betting operations, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
A Republican-sponsored effort to clamp down on Internet gambling may turn out to be a bad bet for the GOP.
Britain's culture secretary sought to build support among dozens of nations — but not the U.S. — for improved regulation of the global Internet gaming industry Tuesday at an international summit on the sector.
Britain's culture secretary on Friday compared the U.S. crackdown on online gambling to the failed alcohol ban of the Prohibition as she prepared to host an international summit on Internet gambling next week.
Observers say the recently enacted U.S. law that bans gambling online could cut into the number of entrants to the planet's richest card game — the World Series of Poker.
Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internet gambling ban won't keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on to overseas payment services out of the law's reach.
Shares in British online gambling companies, including Sportingbet PLC and PartyGaming PLC, dived Monday after the U.S. Congress passed legislation prohibiting the use of credit cards, checks and electronic fund transfers for online gaming.
Congressional Republicans attached a measure cracking down on Internet gambling to a bill aimed at enhancing port security that passed Saturday.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is trying use a bill authorizing U.S. military operations, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, to prohibit people from using credit cards to settle Internet gambling debts.