“The National Football League, worried that legal gambling on games—or point spreads, or yardage statistics, or whatever—would open the door to player malpractice of the kind that roiled pro baseball in 1919 (the ‘Black Sox’ scandal) and college basketball in the 1950s. No doubt they have reason to be worried. But at the same time, the NFL is entirely comfortable with wagering on ‘fantasy’ football, which exposes real players to real temptation.”
—Columnist Philip Terzian for the Evening Standard, pointing out the NFL’s hypocrisy with regard to sports betting
“The states are capable of regulating betting. They do so in other contexts and this should be no different. Government regulation to achieve a mandated payout for leagues is not a reason for federal intervention. Light touch regulation is more likely to be achieved with a free market. Let the states compete on sports betting and fans and taxpayers will win.”
—Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform in an editorial for The Hill newspaper.
“PokerStars VR allows players to come together from all over the world in a virtual card room where avatars not only interact around the game, but can dress to impress, socialize, entertain and chat as if in the same room. They can do this while streaming shows or sport and enjoying a variety of virtual items and activities such as ordering food and drinks, sharing sushi, throwing items at each other, or even owning a pet donkey and smoking a cigar (or a cigar-smoking pet donkey if that’s on the wish list).”
—Severin Rasset, director of poker innovation and operations at PokerStars on the company’s new virtual reality game which is currently in beta testing
“The fact that the tender offer price may be lower than an investor’s acquisition cost does not, in and of itself, make the tender offer price unfair.”
—Melco Resorts Philippines, defending itself against claims that it made a lowball offer of PHP7.25 per share as it goes private
