Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, the world’s second-biggest online bookmaker, posted a second quarter profit and reaffirmed its forecast for a profit in 2009 after wagers climbed.
Net income in the second quarter was 126,000 euros ($179,216) compared with a 6.7 million euro loss the year before, the Vienna-based company said today on its Web site. Betting [...]

It’s head-butting time between Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and developer Jeff Jacobs, who suddenly has come forth with a proposal for creating a big convention center hotel complete with a casino in downtown Cleveland.
In an open letter to civic and business leaders in Northeast Ohio, Mr. Jacobs has urged them to oppose a proposed [...]

RENO, Nev. — Max Baer Jr. is considering buying a closed hotel-casino in Sparks and turning it into Jethro’s Beverly Hillbillies Hotel and Casino based on the television sitcom he co-starred on during the 1960s.
Sparks Mayor Geno Martini confirmed Baer has met with city officials about the possible purchase of the Silver Club.
The former actor [...]