Diversification is a major key for any corporation that gets to a certain size; being solely reliant on one stream of business represents a major business threat. So when Caesar’s, the company well known for its hotel/casino in Las Vegas, started a hotel and restaurant in Scottsdale but without gaming facilities, the first of its kind anywhere, it seemed like … Read More
Sports Betting is Coming to the TPC Scottsdale: A Positive Development or a Negative Sign of the Times?
It has been nearly impossible to ignore the hyperbolic growth of sports betting in America. Sports matches are inundated with advertisements from sportsbooks, there has been a de facto arms race between a few of the bigger players, and most prominent sports talking heads on digital platforms have had sponsorships from betting platforms. Now we know that the sportsbook at … Read More
Somehow the Phoenix Open Will Get Even Wilder: Here Comes Sports Betting
It is Arizona’s sports event of the year, when the Super Bowl and Final Four aren’t here at least. It is known nationally by golf fans as THE Party in the PGA. It is most recently known by a hole in one followed by beer littering the 16th hole in a fit of public ecstasy. It is the WM Phoenix … Read More
The Waste Management Phoenix Open is About to Get Even Wilder: With Sports Betting
By Ronald Sampson We all know the reputation of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the biggest golf event in Arizona every year: wild, raucous, salacious, and whatever other adjective you’d use to describe an excellent party. And now, they’re about to turn the volume up to 11…with sports betting. The Scottsdale City Council, in conjunction with the Tournament Player’s Club … Read More