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The Ohio Casino Control Commission has told every sportsbook, supplier, integrity monitor and testing laboratory it licenses to stop providing services "of any kind" to platforms offering sports event contracts in Ohio, or face reopened suitability investigations. With its cease-and-desist letters to the exchanges now challenged in court, Ohio is turning to the companies that keep them running.

Sportsbook supplier Altenar has asked the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority to act against Sportradar's control of official MLB, NBA, NHL and ATP data, six months after suing it in New Jersey. A complaint is not an investigation, and neither authority has said it has opened one.

Three Democrats want copies of every personalised athlete and entertainer video FanDuel has sent to VIP customers, and for each one, how much the recipient had lost and why the host chose them. FanDuel told them in September that it has no plans to suspend or end its VIP programme.

The site compares equivalent contracts across Kalshi, Polymarket, Novig, Underdog, FanDuel Predicts, Fanatics and five others, with a cross-venue engine for multi-leg positions and Genius's live game data underneath. It runs on Legend, the media business whose $1.2bn purchase in February sank the shares. Mark Locke says most prediction-market demand "appears new".

Polymarket, Coinbase, Robinhood and six others have been told to cease and let residents withdraw their money, while PayPal, Sportradar, Genius Sports, ESPN, Apple and Google have been subpoenaed for what they know.

Hours after the NFL wrote prediction markets out of its data rights, Sportradar extended official data, streaming and integrity services to Polymarket across more than 20 competitions. One property is conspicuously absent from every one of these deals.

The league confirmed three multi-year sportsbook deals on Thursday, five months after the category emptied. The most consequential line is the one about who is not in them.

FanDuel, DraftKings and Caesars all walked away from the category this year and it sat vacant through the summer. Fanatics has taken it on a non-exclusive deal, and the reason the others left has not gone anywhere.

Genius Sports has just completed one of the most significant deals in the sports data sector. The combination with Legend gives the company a foothold in iGaming media that none of its rivals can match.