Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer is denying he has ever bet on sports after screenshots began circulating online showing he made and received Venmo payments with “sports gambling” listed as the reason for the expense. Mateer was at Washington State at the time and the Venmo transactions were with a teammate. After a strong season at Washington State last year, Mateer …
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Pamela MaldonadoAug 11, 2025, 01:00 PM ET Close Pamela Maldonado is a sports betting analyst for ESPN. Before the first whistle of the 2025 college football season blows and play begins, the betting market is already moving. Week 1 lines are live at ESPN BET with season win totals and futures shaping up. Each team in the preseason AP top …
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Amazon ‘s Project Kuiper has not made a dime yet. But recent updates boost our confidence that the ambitious satellite internet initiative could soon be a new cog in the tech giant’s money-making machine. “There’s so much to like here” with Amazon, Jim Cramer said in the wake of its second-quarter earnings report . “Right now, we have [Amazon Web …
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Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World event in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Masayoshi Son is making his biggest bet yet: that his brainchild SoftBank will be the center of a revolution driven by artificial intelligence. Son says artificial superintelligence (ASI) …
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Amid the cutthroat war for AI talent, tech giants are offering astronomical sums to lure a tiny pool of top engineers from rivals. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects the market for these geniuses to remain intense, but estimated there are “many thousands of people” capable of making key discoveries in superintelligence who could conceivably be found. The amounts of money …
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Arizona police on Friday released new details about the fatal May drowning of influencer Emilie Kiser’s 3-year-old son, including allegations that her husband placed a $25 bet on an NBA playoff game before the tragic incident. Brady Kiser, the husband of the parenting influencer, was home with the couple’s two sons while his wife was out with friends on May …
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Despite player and coach objections, multiple green sex toys have been thrown at the court during live WNBA games over the last week. Crypto-based prediction market Polymarket is letting people stake money on whether more disruptions will occur as soon as Wednesday night, after one anonymous user earned more than $6,000 following the latest illegal stunt. Before the Las Vegas Aces and …
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CHICAGO — Less than 24 hours after the only starting pitcher he acquired at the trade deadline exited with an injury, Cubs team president Jed Hoyer stood by the acquisition of Michael Soroka. “We make bets on human beings,” Hoyer told reporters Tuesday afternoon at Wrigley Field. “Sometimes they work out. I haven’t gotten the full report yet, but obviously …
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The Apple logo, taken at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. Sven Hoppe | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Wall Street is gearing up for Apple’s third-quarter results after the bell, and users on prediction platform Kalshi are betting on what will be discussed on the iPhone maker’s upcoming earnings call. In the late morning on Thursday, Kalshi …
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