Thomas Mills

If you choose to gamble on the World Cup, make sure you know what you're betting on. Enjoy the games!

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🚨🏌️🙅🏼‍♂️ #JOKE — In an exclusive with @thetimes, LIV Golfer Anirban Lahiri laughed off the theory LIV golfers are ready to jump ship and head back to the PGA Tour: “That is the biggest joke ever. I will not name names but I know at least a dozen players who’d rather not play golf than go back to the PGA Tour.” When asked what’s wrong with the PGA Tour, Lahiri said: “I’m not going to answer because I don’t want this to be a hate thing,” he says. “I played on the PGA Tour for seven years and really enjoyed my time there. I learnt a lot about the business of golf and some of the things I learnt disillusioned me. I’ll leave it at that. “That was enough for me not to want to go back, but that’s me personally. I’m sure others have different opinions of it and I respect that as well, but to generalise that everybody is falling over backwards to come back to the PGA Tour is the same kind of propaganda we’ve had for four years.”

The submission window for a Notice of Intent will remain open until Friday, May 15, 2026, for potential sports wagering license applicants. For more information, please visit our website: buff.ly/U18LF3h

The @MassGamingComm launched the Commonwealth's new player health and responsible gaming program called @playwellma last month. Make sure to follow PlayWell socials for important updates and resources.

Jordan Maynard, Chair of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, goes 'On the Record' about prediction markets. Watch the full conversation Sunday at 11:00 on WCVB.

Chair Jordan Maynard will be on @WCVB's "On The Record" airing on Channel 5 this Sunday at 11 am. (Photo courtesy of WCVB Channel 5)

"One great detail will do the work of 50 crappy sentences." Wright Thompson is one of the last great magazine writers in America. He's long been a writer at ESPN, and if you love sports, you've almost definitely read his work. Maybe his profile of Tiger Woods. Or maybe the one about Michael Jordan. Some highlights: - "When somebody says something is overwritten, it really just means that the story is underreported." - Profiles are about figuring out what is a central complication of somebody's life and how, on a daily basis, they go about solving it. - "All of these stories, the few good ones I've written... I think these stories are like a prayer for empathy, to try to understand each other, to understand another human being a little bit at a time. Then slowly, thread by thread, you understand yourself." - On writing well: "One of the things that's missing is that nobody wants to hear what I have to say, which is just reps. Zen is a butt in a seat. There's no mystery. It's just reps." - "I wish someone had told me years ago that if you're going to be a professional writer for decades, writing is not going to be about words, but it's going to be about architecture. Only when you really understand how things fit together and move can you then actually be thinking about the words." - "All writing is trying to say something new that is true and is both specific and universal and that helps the reader understand something they didn't understand before, preferably about themselves." And here are the timestamps: 1:50 Writer's vomit vs. writer's block 8:33 The architecture of writing 11:30 What makes for a good story? 15:57 Bringing characters to life 21:11 "The hammer" 26:26 Writing a vivid scene 33:41 How to bring places to life 39:57 Dialogue vs. quotes 45:49 The role of secondary characters 51:44 The problem with "brainstorming" 1:02:13 What makes for a great ending? I've shared the full conversation with Wright Thompson below. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, or listen to the full thing on Apple / Spotify, check out the reply tweets.

Busy day on Friday opening up the @MassGamingComm new @PlayWellMA Hubs at each casino. Excited to launch this new brand in MA.

Jordan Maynard has been re-appointed as Commissioner for a second term and redesignated as Chair of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. Maynard was sworn in last week by Chief Secretary April English. Read more: buff.ly/YYDBUlM

@Schuetzinc Read more, from @Schuetzinc: casinoreports.com/schuetz-good-n…

BREAKING: @MassGamingComm Chair Jordan Maynard has been re-appointed as both commissioner and commission chair. Full Story via @Bookies 🔽 bookies.com/news/massachus…

Make sure to follow @PlayWellMA as we launch the commission's new player health and responsible gaming brand!

Excited to launch @PlayWellMA today. This new brand will help @MassGamingComm to assist Massachusetts patrons. There is also swag if you stop by a new Hub today!

The MGC February 2026 revenue report highlights $92M in Gross Gaming Revenue generated at Mass. casinos and $76.13M in Sports Wagering Revenue generated among the state's sports wagering licensees.

@DustinGouker Quickly will make the list of "worst date night spots in the DMV"

Will Kalshi rip this idea off by giving away 40s on the sidewalk? Stay tuned!

Curious what Massachusetts was betting on during last month's Winter Olympics? The numbers are out. More info can be found here: buff.ly/ovXBiIY

Opinion | In-game bets on student athletes are illegal in Mass. bostonglobe.com/2026/03/17/opi…

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission doled out eight fines for noncompliance to five licensed sports betting operators this week. The fines ranged from $5,000 to $20,000 and included improper collegiate prop bets to wagers placed on Russian athletes. sportsbettingdime.com/news/betting/m…

CFTC Chair Michael Selig says it’s up to prediction markets to decide which contracts cross the line. That’d be like if the New York Gaming Commission let FanDuel decide which bets it’s allowed to offer.