Jesse ventura is no longer governor of Minnesota. But he is still pushing an agenda - in this case, sports betting over the Internet.

Police will not investigate claims Tasmanian Racing Minister Jim Cox offered jockeys money for their support of Betfair.

The controversial Leone Chiara case is one of five races involving Betfair transactions in front of the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation.

The wide variety of races on a typical British card could be consigned to the scrapheap if racecourses fail to agree how to divide up funds from any replacement to the existing levy on betting, which has funded the sport for more than 40 years.

German prosecutors urged judges on Tuesday to give a suspended prison sentence to Robert Hoyzer, the referee at the centre of Germany's match-fixing scandal, and to send his gambling accomplice to jail.

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Some of Australia's major sporting codes have joined forces in a bid to get a fairer share of the growing billion-dollar sports betting industry.

The racing industry has referred six cases of suspect betting activity to the state's gambling watchdog.

The world's gone poker crazy. Every day, £40m is gambled globally on the game; one internet site is now worth more than British Airways, and even Oxford University and The Archers are hooked on Texas Hold 'Em.

Spiros Athanas, whose Montego Bay based Internet gambling company was shutdown last year for breaches of the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission Act, is now free to resume betting as long as he does not take local bets.

Governments across Asia are lifting restrictions on gambling, and analysts forecast a huge increase in the number of new casinos built in the region.

The Sting

Stewards will refer one punter's bet of $30,000, laying unplaced favourite Vengo to lose at Sandown on Saturday, to the Victorian Casino and Gaming Authority today.

Betfair says Racing Victoria is to blame for stewards' inability to scrutinise the betting exchange's records.

Stewards around Australia will have access to betting records, including client details, when Betfair is licensed in Tasmania.

A potential merger between Queensland betting agency UNiTAB and Victorian wagering group Tattersall's could constitute the next round of consolidation in Australia's gaming industry, according to market analysts.

There will be a quarter of a million new gamblers within a year, after the abolition of strict rules on casino entry caused a surge in first-time visitors, The Times has learnt.

PartyGaming yesterday put the penultimate touch to the overhaul of its relationships with so-called "skin" operators, buying two of its partners and severing its links with a third.

Although South African law prohibits Internet gambling, it has done little to stop a growing number of punters from pointing their mouse in the direction of online casinos. 

Beaten short-priced favourite Vengo was embroiled yesterday in a Betfair probe.