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You have probably been on another planet if you haven’t heard that John Higgins won the BetFred World Snooker Championship on the 4^th May. John played a sterling snooker match finally overcoming Shaun Murphy to win 18 frames to 9 at the final that took place at the home of snooker, Sheffields Crucible Theatre.

Whether you are an old customer or a new customer of sports online betting site Coral, you will be in for a treat. Coral are so keen to get all the sports online betting fans out there placing their bets online that they are offering an amazing 10% online betting cash back option on ALL sports and gaming featured on the Coral online betting website.

The Betfred World Snooker Championships are certainly keeping everyone guessing, what with the shock exit of the world number one Ronnie O’Sullivan and then John Higgins proving that even when it looks like he is going to be knocked out that there is still life left. This is certainly going to be one tournament where it is practically anyone’s guess who will emerge Champion at the finals due to take place on Monday 4^th May.

It is sad but true that there is a nasty whiff of a football betting scandal involving five professional footballers and irregular football betting patterns for a match played on 3^rd May 2008 between Accrington Stanley and Bury. The FA have released a statement stating that the players involved in alleged football betting Jay Harris, Robert Williams, Peter Cavanagh, David Mannix all players for Accrington Stanley at the time and Andrew Mangan who played for Bury have all been charged in relation to breaches of the strict rules on football betting that the FA has in place.

There is finally an end to the multi-million dispute between BetFred and Turf TV, the dispute which has been going on for almost a year has seen BetFred refuse to sign an agreement with Turf TV until now to show televised races provided by sport broadcaster.

Spread betting firm World Spreads has sold the sports betting sideof its operation to Fergus Rice who currently heads the SportsSpread Betting and Supreme Odds division. The €1.75 million management buyout deal has reportedly been extremely beneficial for World Spreads as there were doubts expressed in the industry as to whether a suitable buyer of the sports betting side would be found.

Paddy Power as usual is ahead of the game by launching their novelty bet on who is going to be the next Bond Girl. Never to miss a possible betting market opportunity they are currently taking bets on Frieda Pinto being named with odds of 3/1. Freida made her name in the Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire and would of course make a suitably exotic Bond girl. A more down to earth choice is Jennifer Aniston, Paddy Power currently are offering odds of 4/1 on Jennifer being named as the next Bond beauty.

The largest racing publication and website, the Racing Post is broadening their horizons by launching online Racing Post Poker and Racing Post Casino sites. The new sites will have software and customer support services supplied by 888.com the parent company of 888.Sport, although the branding will be Racing Post’s own.

Greyhound racing is one of the most popular racing spectator sports in the UK and greyhound betting is the main reason why three million people go to the dogs to watch the sport each year. Greyhound betting at racetracks and sport betting sites such as BetFred, has attracted £2.5 billion in wagers for the annual 70,000 greyhound races that take place. The popularity is set to continue to grow not only from the steadily rising attendances at the 28 tracks but also from the television exposure.