Bill King

Senior writer Bill King is the lead contributor to Sports Business Journal’s In-Depth stories, Special Report coverage and profiles, in addition to covering boxing, MMA and the field of sports business education. He has won numerous national and regional writing awards since joining SBJ in 1998. King brings extensive experience to his work, having spent 12 years at daily newspapers in Florida, where he covered Major League Baseball, the NBA, NFL and major college football. BEATS: Special Projects/Profiles: General assignment; Boxing/UFC: (big-picture stories); Educational programs

Jontay Porter suspension shows system works, but raises questions on future of player props

Betting Newsletter - 04/26/2024

They are largely unrelated, yet inevitably intertwined. An interpreter stole $16 million from Shohei Ohtani to cover gambling debts, initially creating suspicion that baseball’s biggest star was either betting or covering the losses of a close friend who’d gotten in over his head with a Southern California bookie....

March sports betting handle tracking up big, but several big states still to report

Betting Newsletter - 04/26/2024

With all but seven states reporting, March is tracking 14% ahead of last year in states that also were open at that time in 2023. Those states that have reported are up 16% over February. Big gainers included Maryland (+39% vs. March 2023), Louisiana (+40%) and New Jersey (+30%). ...

SBJ Betting: NBA incident highlights integrity system, questions on props

Betting Newsletter - 04/26/2024

Champions 2024: Fred Whitfield

Journal - 04/22/2024 | Unpacks Newsletter - 04/22/2024 | Journal - 04/22/2024

Editor’s note: This is the first profile in our 2024 Class of Champions: Pioneers & Innovators. Seated with arms folded on a sofa in his suburban Charlotte home, Fred Whitfield considered a question that he had pondered on and off in the months since announcing he...

February handle on pace for big uptick with record Super Bowl figures

Betting Newsletter - 04/12/2024

Record Super Bowl handle reported by FanDuel (2.5 million users placing more than 14 million bets totaling $307 million) and DraftKings (2.4 million users, 12.4 million wagers, $305 million) were harbingers of a February handle that will dwarf last year’s $8.9 billion. With Arizona and Kentucky still to...

Sports betting bill dies -- again -- in Georgia legislature

Betting Newsletter - 04/12/2024

As Masters play continues at Augusta National this week, yet another session of the Georgia legislature has wrapped up without any indication of momentum behind legalization in the state. What began a few years ago as a confusing, throw-it-all-in-the-pot mishmash of casino and horse track...

Leading U.S. sportsbooks band together for Responsible Online Gaming Association

Unpacks Newsletter - 04/15/2024 | Betting Newsletter - 04/12/2024

While working on a deep dive into responsible gambling practices earlier this year, I heard rumblings that several of the leading sportsbooks were in talks to form an industry group that would allow for information sharing that could help identify problem gambling behavior -- if they could find...

SBJ Betting: Sportsbooks align for responsible practices coalition

Betting Newsletter - 04/12/2024

With limitless will and immeasurable confidence and perseverance, Jason Robins leads DraftKings through chaotic storms to ultimate success

Journal - 04/01/2024 | Unpacks Newsletter - 04/01/2024 | Unpacks Lite Newsletter - 04/01/2024 | Journal - 04/01/2024

J ason Robins sat on a black sofa at DraftKings’ outpost on radio row on the Friday morning before the Super Bowl, his back to a partition covered in faux Wrigley Field ivy. A burgundy blazer dressed up the pale blue T-shirt he wore beneath...

NBA's League Pass to feature betting integration

Power Up Newsletter - 03/20/2024 | Morning Buzz - 03/19/2024

Subscribers to the NBA’s League Pass out-of-market streaming package will be able to place wagers through league sponsors FanDuel or DraftKings while keeping up with spreads and odds on their screens through a new “emBet” integration that data distributor Sportradar will roll out today. ...

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