If you are thinking about placing a wager on tonight’s Bowl Championship Series, consider this: BCS Title games tend toward blowouts. 10-point teaser would have turned the ATS loser into a winner only twice in 13 games! The favorite has won and covered 4 straight BCS games. Point spread has NEVER mattered in BCS game [...]

An effort to stop administrative hearings underway over a Gretna race track’s ability to offer barrel racing failed on Tuesday, reports the News Service of Florida. Attorneys for the Florida Quarter Horse Track Association, which supports allowing barrel racing at a new Gretna-based race track, asked a Leon County Circuit Court Judge to issue a [...]

Cute, smart missive from Disney-backed No Casinos: With Thanksgiving upon us, we’re asking the question: What are the Top 10 things casino promoters are thankful for this year? NUMBER 10:  Genting is thankful that the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms was not at last weeks’ Committee meeting when Genting President Colin Au etched his name in Florida history by becoming the [...]

Lilly Rockwell of the News Service of Florida reports that the only winners so far in the effort to allow luxury resort casinos in South Florida, which has widespread implications for every form of gambling in the state, are lobbyists. Gambling groups from across the nation have spent millions on outside lobbyists since July in [...]

Lilly Rockwell of the News Service of Florida reports that a controversial decision this month by Gadsden County allowing voters to decide whether to have slot machines at the new Gretna horse race track has prompted several copycat efforts in other counties, despite questions over the legality of slots. Washington County, just north of Panama [...]

Following in the footsteps of nearby Gadsden County, Washington County, just north of Panama City, wants to allow voters to decide in January whether to approve slots at the Ebro Greyhound Race Track, according to the Panama City News Herald via the News Service of Florida. Dog and horse race tracks throughout the state are [...]

Associated Press - 1 of a kind: Barrel racing betting set to open In what might be an event that’s unique to this small, rural North Florida town, operators are planning to open a spot where gamblers may bet on barrel racing – if opponents don’t win a challenge of the permit. Creek Entertainment Gretna plans [...]

The occasional chill in the air — what passes for a chill in Tallahassee — sent signals that 2011 was drawing to an end. But with an early session slated for 2012 to deal with redistricting, lawmakers were beginning to lay the groundwork for the major proposals of the coming year, writes Brandon Larrabee of [...]

Kenric Ward of the Sunshine State News has a doozy: In September, Jessica Hoppe, general counsel and vice president of government affairs for Genting’s Resorts World Miami, handed a $25,000 check to Allan Bense, then-chairman of the Florida Chamber’s board of directors, in a bid to join the organization. “Genting offered a five-figure check to [...]