Stop Predatory Gambling

12/10/2025

Crypto Casinos Are the Wild West of Gambling—And America’s Youth Are the TARGETS

A stunning NYT investigation reveals how online crypto casinos are exploding with zero oversight. Kids are being pulled in. Lives are being wrecked. Celebrities are promoting it. This should make your stomach turn upside down!

Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.

12/10/2025

Gambling addiction is taking a serious toll on athletes, damaging their health, their careers, and the integrity of sports itself as betting culture grows out of control.

To achieve safe, regulated sports betting, we need to address the silent plague of gambling addiction among athletes

12/09/2025

$270,000 sponsorship on the table. She didn’t even blink. She said NO

Tennis legend Caroline Garcia walked away from a massive payday to expose the truth: the gambling industry is fueling addiction, destroying lives, and turning athletes into targets for daily abuse and death threats. Her courage is rare and an inspiration to the entire world.

Caroline Garcia issued a statement explaining why she turned down $270,000 from a gambling company.

12/08/2025

Missouri’s sports betting launch is being sold as entertainment, but experts are already warning about addiction, athlete harassment, and threats to game integrity that always follow legalization.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Inside a Jefferson City conference room, fewer than a dozen people have been creating hundreds of pages of rules that could help shape Missouri’s future.  The Missouri Gaming Commission refers to it as the “war room,” and it’s where the groundwork is being laid for the ...

12/05/2025

Commercialized sports gambling has largely dominated the national headlines in the last few years, but regional casinos and state lotteries are more aggressive than ever. This session will discuss the major negative impacts that regional casinos and state lotteries are causing citizens and their communities.

Commercialized sports gambling has largely dominated the national headlines in the last few years, but regional casinos and state lotteries are more aggressi...

12/03/2025

On November 14, 2025, Les Bernal, National Director of Stop Predatory Gambling, testified in front of Massachusetts lawmakers for 3 minutes explaining the devastation that icasino gambling would bring to the state of Massachusetts.

On November 14, 2025, Les Bernal, National Director of Stop Predatory Gambling, testified in front of Massachusetts lawmakers for 3 minutes explaining the de...

12/02/2025

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12/01/2025

Six college basketball players from three schools manipulated games or shared inside betting information, exposing the depth of corruption in sports gambling.

Six former men's college basketball players at New Orleans, Mississippi Valley State and Arizona State participated in gambling schemes that included game manipulation or sharing information with known bettors, the NCAA announced.

11/28/2025

Congress is demanding answers from the National Collegiate Athletic Association after it moved to allow college athletes to bet on professional sports, raising serious questions about integrity and the protection of young players.

A trio of congressmen have asked NCAA president Charlie Baker in a letter to provide more information about the association's plans to allow college athletes to bet on professional sports.

11/26/2025

As if sports betting weren’t harmful enough, Kalshi now wants people wagering on sneakers and collectible toys. Gambling companies will turn anything into a bet if it keeps people hooked and losing money.

Kalshi and StockX are teaming up to offer "product event contracts" for users to bet on the future price of everything from sneakers to Labubu dolls.

11/25/2025

🚨What you’re seeing here is Wheel of Fortune partnering with and promoting the DraftKings Casino ‘Multiplier Tournament,’ running November 24 through 28. A holiday-weekend gambling tournament promoted on a “family” game show.

For 50 years, families have watched this show together. Now it’s being used to push high-intensity online gambling to kids, teens, and older adults. A trusted piece of American family life has become an advertisement for addictive gambling — during the holidays, no less. This shows how deep predatory gambling has metastasized into everyday life in America🚨

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11/24/2025

Norfolk’s casino was sold as an economic savior, but now officials admit it will generate less than half of the promised tax revenue. Another community misled by gambling’s false promise of prosperity.

Norfolk leaders say the city will still benefit — even if the amount is significantly less than early projections.