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NBA coach Chauncey Billups and player Terry Rozier were arrested in a massive illegal gambling scheme involving organized crime families and rigged poker games, the FBI said Thursday.
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How cheaters rigged high-stakes poker games with the mob and sports pros, according to authorities
The indictments announced Thursday of a poker cheating ring involving NBA figures and backed by the mafia emphasized their alleged high-tech cheating methods. But the con tactics they described are as old as poker itself,
The NBA's Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier were arrested Thursday as part of a federal investigation into illegal betting activities.
A trio of Senate Democrats -- Sens. Maria Cantwell, Richard Blumenthal and Cory Booker -- made very clear in a Zoom conference call Tuesday that they won't support the SCORE Act and that it is unlikely to pass. "I can pretty well guarantee the SCORE Act ain't going to make it through the United States Senate," Blumenthal said.
A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to the legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have several injury concerns at wide receiver going into Week 8, but a rumor from CBS Sports doesn't leave much hope for an addition at the position at the trade deadline.
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For sports fans, there's nothing as exciting as going to see your team play. But what was once an affordable form of entertainment is becoming increasingly more expensive and pricing some loyal fans out.
Chauncey Billups, coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, and Miami Heat reserve Terry Rozier were among more than 30 people charged in ”illegal gambling schemes,” according to federal authorities.