Julien Alfred Upset Win in Women's 100m Gold, Harris up 5 Points?
- Julien Alfred gives Saint Lucia its first Olympic medal ever has she upsets heavily favored Sha'Carri Richardson (USA).
- A recent Rasmussen Poll shows VP Kamala Harris up 5 points over GOP nominee and former President Donald Trump
- Josh Shapiro is now a -450 favorite to be picked as Kamala Harris running mate.
- Trump only wants a Fox News debate with Harris and in front of a live audience.
- BetRivers sees mostly positive results last quarter amid news company will cut affiliates out.
Olympics
Julien Alfred Upsets in the Women's 100 Meters
Julien Alfred gave the tiny island of Saint Lucia its' first ever Olympic medal Saturday.
She finished on a wet track with heavy rain with a national record of 10.72 seconds.
Alfred was listed at +430 odds to win the Women's 100 meters gold with Sha'Carri Richardson (USA) a pretty big -310 favorite. Richardson would go on to take the silver, finishing in 10.67, while Melissa Jefferson claimed bronze in 10.92.
A notable absentee from the final was Jamaican double Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who missed her semifinal after security officials at the Stade de France refused to let her in.
Politics
Harris Up 5 Points in Shock New Poll
Scott Rasmussen suggests it could just be a "temporary bounce" but his polling, as his own polling showed Vice President Kamala Harris up 5 points over GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Harris +5...
We don't know yet if this is a temporary bounce or the first indicator of lasting change in the race... A week ago, it was a toss-up (Trump 44% Harris 43%).
Stay tuned!
Harris +5...
— Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) August 2, 2024
We don't know yet if this is a temporary bounce or the first indicator of lasting change in the race... A week ago, it was a toss-up (Trump 44% Harris 43%).
Stay tuned! https://t.co/NlSmqgRsBR
What's more shocking here is that Scott Rasmussen tends to lean more pro-Trump.
His RMG Polling is not to be confused with the even more far-right-leaning Rasmussen Reports.
Three thousand registered voters were polled by RMG Research for the time period of July 29-31, 2024. Of those respondents, 47 percent said they were voting for Harris, 42 percent for Trump, and six percent for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As of Saturday morning, Trump had odds of -110 and Harris +100 at BetOnline.
Vice President to be Selected This Weekend?
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was now a -450 favorite to be picked as Harris' VP running mate at BetOnline.
White House, campaign and party sources tell Axios that all signs point to the 51-year-old as being the pick.
Why it matters: Virtually all roads to 270 electoral votes run through Pennsylvania — one of the few things the Harris and Trump campaigns agree on.
While Harris could surprise everyone, she seems to be headed toward a pick that a wide variety of sources — Republicans and Democrats — think is both shrewd and straightforward.
It's a combination of math and logic: Pennsylvania's 19 electoral college votes are the biggest swing-state prize on the map, and its Democratic governor has a 61% approval rating.
Trump Only Wants Fox Debate
Trump has reneged on his campaign’s prior agreement to an ABC News-hosted debate in a late-night social media post in which he also announced he has agreed “with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th.” The former president is also requesting a live audience.
Trump posted his intentions late Friday night, just before midnight, and explained his changed mind, stating that the previously scheduled debate was against President Joe Biden, which he claimed “has been terminated in that Biden will no longer be a participant.”
He also cited a lawsuit he has filed against the ABC Network and George Stephanopoulos, claiming that his reputation had been harmed by multiple on-air reports that Mr. Trump had been found liable for raping the writer E. Jean Carroll.
Harris has yet to agree on these terms.
BetOnline plans to offer a number of prop bets pertaining to any future debate between the two candidates.
Hot Right Now
- DraftKings proposed surcharge on gamblers in certain states is being widely ridiculed.
- BetRivers parent company surges on second earnings raise this year amid decision to cut affiliates.
- Rush Street now expects adjusted EBITDA of $68 million at the midpoint of the new range. That is up 23.6% from the previous guidance midpoint of $55 million and a significant step up from the $8.2 million made in all of 2023.
- Rush Street reported a 24% increase in monthly actives in the US and Canada to 164,000. Latin America, which includes Mexico, saw a 79% increase to 288,000.
- Rush Street will not rely on "sports-only" markets any time soon, focusing primarily on its casino product.
- Sportsbook is the only product that relies heavily on an outside vendor (Kambi) but Schwartz is OK with that, given how Rush Street personalizes the platform.
- “The only thing we haven’t brought in-house is sportsbook platform, which we integrate through Kambi for many years,” CEO Richard Schwartz said. “As I’ve shared previously, it’s probably been a while, our philosophy on that relationship is that we like to sort of get the bread and butter from Kambi, but we have a development team internally that adds our own flavor, our own twists, our own innovations on top of the sportsbook.
- “So we get the benefit, I think, of a core, fundamentally strong core technology, and we differentiate by building our own features on top of it, which are things like the squares have worked and the player props things we did last year that really worked well as well, we have some new ones under development.”
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