BBC News - Italy’s Alessio di Mauro has been suspended for nine months and fined 29,000 for betting tennis on matches. The 31-year-old is the first player to be penalised under the Anti-Corruption Programme of the ATP, the governing body of men’s tennis. A .Di Mauro handed ban for gambling

Boston Globe: Even as Governor Deval Patrick seeks to license three resort casinos in Massachusetts, he hopes to clamp down on the explosion in Internet gambling by making it illegal for state residents to place a bet on line. He has proposed jail terms of up to two years and $25,000 fines for violators.Internet gambling is a target of Patrick bill

New York Times: Allegations of match fixing, doping, gambling and poisoning have overshadowed the world of tennis this year.From Center Court to Off Court

InternetNews.com: Official says law unfairly shut out European gambling sites.EU Presses U.S. to Change Internet Gambling Law

The Register: Real politik ruling opens door for Bwin The the Administrative Court of Appeal in Hessen state today overturned a ruling by a lower court that had prohibited Austrian online gambling operator Bwin from providing gambling services over the internet to German customers.German court rules internet gambling ban an ‘impossibility’

gambling may have some very important unintended consequences. Antigua has challenged the legitimacy of the US’s partial restrictions under the WTO, claiming that the laws represent a free trade infringement US Gambling Law May Cause Flouting of IP Laws

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