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The Las Vegas-based casino giant will pay the NBA for that data to use in determining outcomes of various bets. The NBA's stance has been that getting accurate stats to bettors is critical so players know what they're betting on and so casinos will know when to pay out, and MGM Resorts is the first casino to make an ar... |
Terms of the deal announced Tuesday were not disclosed, other than it's a multiyear arrangement. |
"I know the value of data," MGM chairman and CEO James Murren said. "To be able to have the official NBA data for sports bettors around the world is very valuable. I was willing to, and I've paid for that." |
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who has been talking with Murren about such an arrangement for weeks, said the leagues believe they're getting adequately compensated for the data. |
"It's a leap of faith on both sides," Silver said. "It's a deal moderate in length where I think we can both step back and assess as we go and see, 'Is it working? Is this deal fair? Are we providing the consumers with the right type of experience?'" |
"We understood the value of our marks, of official designations," Silver said. "But I think then in terms of the data we're providing, we have a sense of the magnitude of the current business and a sense of where things may go over the next few years. And I'd say we generally tried to approximate in a sense to come up ... |
How MGM will get that data remains unclear. |
NBA stat data is distributed globally by Sportradar, which sends it to media outlets, broadcasters and betting outlets outside the U.S. — but not inside this country, at least for now. With the start of preseason games still about two months away, there's plenty of time for those matters to get worked out. |
"What this relationship entails is access to official data for the many casinos that MGM operates," Silver said. "It's the use of the NBA's intellectual property and as we've discussed before we're very focused on integrity provisions to protect our fans, to protect those who choose to engage and bet on the NBA." |
MGM will be an official casino partner for the league, but will not have exclusive rights to the data. The NBA still can, and likely will, try to make deals with other casinos who will be offering sports betting in various states or through mobile apps. |
The deal also won't stop other casino companies from offering wagers on NBA games, including prop bets that rely on results other than the final score. |
MGM and other casino operators are moving aggressively to be able to capitalize on the U.S. sports betting market, which is expanding after the Supreme Court ruled in May that states could take sports bets if they wanted. MGM has made three significant deals this week to expand its sports betting operations. |
The company, which is scheduled to report second quarter earnings Thursday, announced separate agreements with a European bookmaker and a U.S.-based regional casino operator that will give it technological expertise and market access in several states where it doesn't already operate casino-resorts. |
The joint venture with the United Kingdom-based owner of Ladbrokes, GVC Holdings, will lead to the creation of a sports betting and online gambling platform in the U.S. with a mobile app and website featuring odds and highlights. |
Murren has previously expressed support for the leagues benefitting from the newly created market, but for the "integrity fee" as pushed by Silver and the NBA as well as other leagues. |
"I'm not a fan of that name, and I don't have any idea what the economic proposition would be, but in so many cases there are opportunities, and this is on a going forth basis," he told The Associated Press hours after the Supreme Court issued its ruling in May. |
The deal announced Tuesday also calls for cross-promotion: MGM will be advertised on NBA assets like NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and social media platforms. In turn, MGM will promote the NBA on its betting platforms. |
The NBA and MGM have been in business together before now. MGM owns the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces, who play inside the Mandalay Bay casino, and is also a presenter of the NBA Summer League. |
"This is a whole new world for us," Silver said. |
The bedroom-ready jam harkens back to the ’90s, pulling inspiration from R. Kelly’s “You Remind Me of Something,” as the now-30-year-old Sammie caters to the ladies. |
Coming of Age, which is now available for pre-order, features the island-flavored jam “Bad Gal,” as well as collaborations with Rick Ross (“Good Life”) and Eric Bellinger (“Show and Tell”). |
Prior to the album’s release on Sept. 15, Sammie will join Tank on his tour, which kicks off Sept. 5 in Nashville. |
Listen to “Too Long” and see the tracklisting below. |
Manchester United legend Dwight Yorke believes Victor Valdes can be a successful replacement for David De Gea, should the current Red Devils No.1 sign for Real Madrid. |
De Gea is expected to depart for the Bernabeu this summer, although United have reportedly raised their asking price to £32m – a record sum for a goalkeeper. |
But even if the former Atletico Madrid keeper does return to Spain, ex-United striker Yorke claims Valdes, who signed an 18-month deal at Old Trafford in January 2015, is an ideal replacement. |
‘Victor Valdes probably thinks he would have a good opportunity,’ the 43-year-old told Sky Sports. |
Martin Clunes has signed up to star in a drama about the hunt to find one of Britain's most dangerous serial killers. |
Manhunt will air on ITV, based on the memoirs of former London Metropolitan Police detective DCI Colin Sutton. |
Doc Martin actor Clunes, 55, will play Sutton, who pursued murderer Levi Bellfield. |
The drama will tell the story of how the murder of French national Amelie Delagrange, in 2004, was eventually linked to the killing of Marsha McDonnell in 2003 and the abduction and murder of Milly Dowler as she walked home from school in 2002. |
Ms Delagrange, 22, was attacked and struck several times on the back of the head with a hammer as she walked home following a night out with friends. |
DCI Sutton "dedicated himself to finding Amelie's killer. With very little evidence, his painstaking approach and the diligence of his fellow officers gradually led to breakthroughs in the case", ITV said, "refusing to rule out similarities to the murders of Marsha McDonnell and Milly Dowler in the same south-west corn... |
The drama has been penned by Ed Whitmore, known for Silent Witness, Rillington Place and Strike Back. |
ITV head of drama Polly Hill said the story continued in the broadcaster's "strong tradition" of bringing "important true stories to screen". |
"With the full co-operation of ex-DCI Colin Sutton, Manhunt dramatises his fight to find Amelie's killer, Levi Bellfield," she said. |
"It is a powerful, compelling script from Ed Whitmore, which illustrates how a dedicated and resilient police officer was determined to leave no stone unturned. |
"I am delighted that Martin Clunes is to play Colin Sutton, in what will be a powerful and unmissable performance." |
Cheri Honkala was born into poverty in Minneapolis in 1963. For the past twenty-five years she has served as national director of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, helping to lead marches, tent cities, homeless encampments, sit-ins and educational retreats. Working as part of an organization with a bare... |
What made you decide to run for Vice-President on the Green Party ticket? |
I ran for Philadelphia sheriff as a Green in 2011 on a zero foreclosure platform. I pledged to refuse to throw families out of their homes. Other Greens learned about who I was and about the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign I’m part of. When I received the call that I was under consideration as Jill’s runni... |
What was the role of the Democratic Party in your campaign for sheriff? |
Gangsters. The Democrats aren’t just a different political party. The Democrats (and the Republicans) are in power right now and they have the ability to use different departments of government to harass anybody who wants to step forward and create something independent of the one party system. If that means using the ... |
What is Kensington, the Philadelphia neighborhood where you live, like? |
Mother Jones once marched from Kensington to the United Nations to call attention to the children who were losing their limbs working in the factories. If Mother Jones were alive today, there would be no factories in Kensington for her to march from. It’s the poorest district in Pennsylvania and it’s multi-racial, refl... |
But I love Kensington because there’s a lot of pride in the amazing people who live there. You have to be a fighter and survivor to be able to stay alive in the neighborhood. Many people refuse to leave and have been fighting against the gentrification that’s going on. |
Since 2009 there has been a 54% increase in the number of Green Party registered voters in Kensington. What does this say about traditional assumptions that the environmental movement is mostly a white, middle class movement? |
Kensington has been home to refineries and factories and a lot of polluted land. There’s a high rate of miscarriages and all of the hospitals have asthma units. It’s no accident that the question of the environment is an issue that people of color have always been involved in but they don’t get the kind of spotlight as... |
What has been your experience with community gardens? |
I used to think that community gardens or farms were just for environmentalists who used the community garden process to creep into poor communities in order to gentrify them. But now I’m very active in our local campaigns to reclaim unused land. In Kensington, we’ve taken a big piece of vacant land –we call it a commu... |
The fight of the next generation is going to be over who determines how land is used and who does that land belong to. Community gardens and farms should be turned over to the local people in the form of a community land trust where the people who live in the local area determine the rules for that land. If they don’t ... |
When we marched from New Orleans all the way to Detroit for the US Social Forum in 2010 we were amazed that there was a community garden in every poor neighborhood that we passed through. More and more, that’s how people are feeding themselves. |
Many people think of the Green Party as being concerned only with the environment. Is that accurate? |
The Greens have a long history of promoting respect for the earth based on the understanding that we’re in very serious trouble if we don’t heal our environment. But the Green Party is not a single-issue party as can be seen from the fact that they selected me as their Vice Presidential candidate. The Greens are linkin... |
The Green New Deal is modeled after Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Great Depression. We believe that this Green New Deal is absolutely possible and that it’s not a pie in the sky kind of plan. |
The Green New Deal has four pillars: An economic bill of rights, green transition, real financial reform, and a functioning democracy. For more specifics, check out jillstein.org. |
Millions of immigrants do not have the right to vote in the United States. You are running for an elective office. Do you reach out to them anyway? |
Absolutely. We’re outraged that President Obama is the Deportation President—he has deported more people than any other President in history. Immigrants are a big part of our national fabric now and we can’t move forward without a morality based on “everybody in, nobody out.” When I ran for sheriff in Philadelphia part... |
We are translating as much of our literature as possible into Spanish, we are talking not just to domestic press but international press and to all of the various different newspapers and radio stations. Throughout the country, we are reaching out to immigrants to insure that they’re a part of this conversation and a p... |
I should add that this campaign isn’t just about the upcoming election. The Green Party is going to put together task forces which will bring together people impacted by issues such as health care, foreclosures, peace, education, and, of course, immigration. We want to do this in a way that involves the people who are ... |
It’s often said that we live in a post-racial world. What do you think? |
Racism certainly still exists but there’s also a growing equality of poverty and misery. Because we live in a country of such abundance we can provide everybody a job, food, housing, and a productive place in society. Once we’re all living humanely, we can learn to love and appreciate each other. |
How would you assess the position of women in the United States? |
Things are getting much more difficult for women in this country. Women have had to take on additional burdens because we’ve had an economic draft into the military, we’ve seen our partners or our children fill the jail cells. So we’ve had to take on the extra burdens of trying to work and trying to raise families, ver... |
Jill Stein is a doctor. She’s studied and teaches internal medicine. She has talked about environmental health her entire life. She has done all of this and raised two young men who recently graduated from college. I’m a single mother, a formerly homeless mother of two children. Neither the Democrats or Republicans hav... |
What did the Green Party have to go through to get on the ballot in your home state of Pennsylvania? |
We had a huge fight in Pennsylvania where the Democrats only have to get 2,000 voter petitions signed to get on the ballot, the Republicans only have to get 2,000 voter petitions signed and we had to get 40,000. We had to work from six in the morning til ten o’clock at night and then another group of people had to stay... |
What is significant about the Green Party’s experience in gaining ballot access and matching campaign funds in so many states? |
The Green Party will be on the ballot in at least forty states. We’ve qualified for federal matching funds in most of those. That has never been done before by an independent party. It’s not just a statement on behalf of the Greens, it’s a statement on behalf of the American people. They’re tired of going nowhere excep... |
We are far from having any kind of democracy in this country. The money we raise, even with matching funds, is just a drop in the bucket compared to the funding Obama and Romney are getting from a handful of billionaires donating to Super PACs. We were able to get on the ballot only as a result of major fights in each ... |
The Republican Party is famous for its Southern strategy. Does your campaign have a Southern strategy? |
We know that in order to uplift the nation, we have to uplift the South. So we place a lot of emphasis on participation and involvement and getting out the vote in the South. The Greens have a history of running folks for office who have come from the South: David Cobb from Texas, Cynthia McKinney from Georgia. We’re d... |
What is the significance of the Occupy movement? |
The Occupy movement has been a very important development in our country and around the world where people who are frustrated with and angry about not having a future began to call out the one per cent. Occupy isn’t just about reform. It’s a call for fundamental transformation. Jill and I see ourselves as the Occupy ca... |
You know you won’t win. Why are you running? |
First of all, we don’t know that we won’t win. Jill and I are completely in this to win it. History doesn’t go in a straight line, it goes in leaps. It can happen here. But the win is also in the growing participation of people to take their country back by kicking the drug that has been sedating them—the two faced one... |
Will the Green Party getting on the ballot in Pennsylvania and many other states hurt Obama? |
What is going to hurt Obama is that after four years in office people can now see that he is pro-war, anti-immigrant, and nothing but another tool of the one per cent. If we continue to vote for the corporate-controlled, one party system in this country it will continue to hurt all of us. We’ve got to stop talking abou... |
My vision is watching the sleeping giant come to life. It’s just a question of education and organization and consciousness. Once it wakes up, it’s gonna take it from there. Most of the things we talk about in the Green New Deal we can make possible in our lifetime. It is not unrealistic. What is unrealistic is to expe... |
I’m a formerly homeless mother. I have two children and I have slept in cars, under bridges, in abandoned houses and for the last twenty-five years I have taught people how to build homeless encampments and take over abandoned churches, abandoned houses, in an effort to stay alive and create leaders and help them devel... |
Lee Ballinger, CounterPunch’s music columnist, is co-editor of Rock and Rap Confidential author of the forthcoming book Love and War: My First Thirty Years of Writing, interviewed Honkala for CounterPunch. RRRC is now available for free by emailing Ballinger at: rockrap@aol.com. |
Sometimes just one bad inning in the game of baseball does enough to derail what was a good game. |
The Neosho Post 163 Nighthawks found that out Thursday as the American Legion season kicked off in the 10th Annual Bob Ratzlaff/Pittsburg Post 64 Wood Bat Tournament. |
The host Post 64 team scored five unearned runs and pulled out a 7-2 victory at JayCee Park. |
Post 64 built a 7-0 lead over Neosho, but really broke the game open with a five-run third inning that opened up a 1-0 lead in a hurry and mostly, due to errors. |
With two outs in the top of the first inning, Willie Watt singled and then scored when his brother, Jesse, hit an RBI double. |
Joe Wachter led off with a double and moved to third base on Tyler Bennett’s single. |
Neosho’s starter Dallas Randen fielded a comebacker and recorded the out. |
Willie Watt reached on a fielder’s choice as the throw to third base to get Wachter wasn’t in time and all three were safe, loading the bases with one out. |
Then, Jesse Watt hit a sharp grounder that was misplayed and two runs scored. Adam McCormick then delivered a two-run double to right field, bringing home the Watt brothers, making it 5-0. |
Tanner Smith capped the scoring for Post 64 when he singled in McCormick. |
Pittsburg scored a run in the bottom of the fourth to go up 7-0. |
Bennett, a Girard native, reached on an infield single and then stole second base. With two out, Jesse Watt delivered an RBI single up the middle to bring Bennett home. |
The Nighthawks scored its runs by tallying a run in the fifth and seventh innings, respectively. |
Scott Wilson reached on a bunt single to open up the bottom of the fifth inning for Neosho. A passed ball moved him up to second base. |
Anthony Westfield then walked. From that point, the inning got a little interesting. |
Alex Wise hit a ground ball which made Post 64 attempt a double play. The play at second was in time to get Westfield and Wise beat a swipe tag at first base. |
The home plate umpire ruled runner interference on Westfield for sliding past the bag — something easy to do on the field turf installed at the park — meaning both Westfield and Wise were out. |
Ty Anderson followed with an RBI single to make it 7-1. |
In the seventh inning, it was Anderson who delivered again. Westfield had a one-out walk and slide in safely into second base on Wise’s fielder’s choice. Anderson then hit a RBI single to score Westfield, making it 7-2. |
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