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Flutter Entertainment-owned FanDuel Group has signed a multi-vertical market access deal with Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment (MGE) to enter Connecticut’s regulated betting and gaming market.

The agreement will see FanDuel bring retail and online sports betting, as well as iGaming and daily fantasy sports, to MGE’s flagship Mohegan Sun property in Uncasville.

“We’re excited to work with FanDuel, one of the leading sports-tech entertainment companies in the US to bring the brand’s innovative sports betting and iGaming solutions to Mohegan Sun Connecticut,” said Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment president and CEO Ray Pineault.

“Our partnership is a priority for Mohegan Digital, as we look to grow and enhance our casino, sportsbook and online operations in Connecticut – and beyond. We’re confident that FanDuel will deliver a best-in-class digital and in-person experience for our loyal guests.”

A temporary retail Mohegan Sun/FanDuel Sportsbook will be located inside Mohegan Sun and will feature four live betting windows and sixteen self-service betting terminals. A permanent sportsbook location is expected to open in winter, subject to securing regulatory approvals.

“Mohegan Sun is an iconic casino and entertainment destination in the Northeast, and we are excited to announce our first tribal gaming partnership with one of the leading tribal operators in the United States,” said FanDuel president Amy Howe. “We have some incredible plans for the retail space at Mohegan Sun, with the potential to be the largest FanDuel Sportsbook in the United States.

“When we combine the retail sports betting experience with the opportunity for online sports betting and iGaming, Connecticut is going to be a key state for us as we look towards the start of football season.”

Shares in FanDuel parent company Flutter Entertainment plc (LSE:FLTR) closed marginally lower at 12,907.89 pence per share in London Thursday.

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Bellator 261: Johnson vs. Moldavsky is set to take place on Friday, June 25 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT. Prelims will start at 6:00 ET with the main card getting underway at 9:00 PM ET. 

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Timothy Johnson vs Valentin Moldavsky will face off for the Bellator interim heavyweight title on June 25 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, the promotion announced Friday. The card will be dubbed Bellator 261. The main bout will have Timothy Johnson facing Valentin Moldavsky for the Interim Heavyweight World Championship.  

Event Name:	Bellator 261
Date:	25 June 2021
Where:	Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT
Free Live Online Stream:	Watch Free Live

In the past, Bellator 261 events were streamed on DAZN but that has changed. You will now need to have a subscription to Showtime to watch the events live. To sign up for the service and watch Bellator events on Showtime you will need an IP address in the United States. If you are currently outside the country or plan to travel during future fights, you will want to connect to a VPN server back in the states. Here are some of our top choices.

Bellator 261: Timothy Johnson vs Valentin Moldavsky interim heavyweight title fight booked for June 25

Bellator MMA has announced the booking of an interim heavyweight title fight…

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Bellator 261
Johnson vs. Moldavsky, Mohegan Sun Arena, Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino, Uncasville, CT
Main Event — Showtime, 9…

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UNCASVILLE, Conn. – For over seven years, Scott Coker has been at the Bellator control panel. The time has flown by for Coker, who would rather focus on the future than the past.

“I think we’ve done a lot of great work in the last seven years,” Coker told MMA Junkie on Thursday. “This was a much different roster than it was seven years ago. It takes time to build a company and a league. I think that right now this is the best roster we’ve had to date. We’re with a great new television partner and there’s a lot of great things ahead. I’m really excited about what’s happening here at Bellator and the future.”

Since July 2020, Bellator has held all 20 of its domestic events at Mohegan Sun Arena. After Bellator 261 on Friday and Bellator 262 on July 13, the promotion will travel across the country for Bellator 263 on July 31 in Los Angeles.

Despite his praise for Mohegan Sun, Coker is excited to hit the road again. The hope is that fans across the country – and perhaps even some overseas – will be able to attend a live Bellator event in 2021.

“We’re out there looking for some venues right now,” Coker said. “We’re definitely going to get on the road. We love the Mohegan Sun. This is a great venue that’s been very good to us. It’s been the home for the last (11) months but I think it’s time to get on the road and get back to what we used to do, which is have a little touring roadshow, coming to different cities around the country.

“As soon as international opens up a little bit, we’re definitely going to get on the road and start promoting fights…

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Jun. 25—For Christian Edwards, Ben Parrish is out as the Albuquerque resident’s opponent Friday on a Bellator card at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Simon Biyong is in, a pairing made on extremely short notice after Biyong’s scheduled opponent also fell out.

Highly irregular? In MMA, not really.

Nor is there anything irregular, Edwards said, about his heartbeat. So there.

To backtrack:

Edwards (4-0), a light heavyweight who trains at Jackson-Wink, was to have fought Parrish (4-1) on a Bellator card in Uncasville on May 21. But Edwards failed a physical exam performed moments after weighing in the day before, told by a Mohegan Tribe athletic commission doctor that he’d detected an irregular heartbeat.

“I felt fine,” Edwards said in a phone interview on Tuesday. “I wasn’t dizzy or lightheaded or nothing. … (The doctor) listens to my heartbeat and drops that one on me, and I said, ‘What do you mean?’

“He said, your heartbeat’s irregular and I can’t pass you.'”

Dehydration is known to cause irregular heartbeats, and Edwards hadn’t had a chance to rehydrate after his weight cut before he was examined. He asked to be re-examined 20 minutes later, a request that was granted. The outcome, though, was the same: not cleared to fight.

Edwards said he was examined again the next day, and no irregular heartbeat was found. It was too late to reschedule the fight against Parrish, but Edwards was cleared for further action. “It was a really weird, unfortunate situation,” Edwards said, “but lesson learned. Now I know I can’t let (a commission doctor) near me until I’ve had a chance to rehydrate.”

Getting down to the light heavyweight limit of 205 pounds sooner, he’s been told, also might be a good idea. He also weighed in unnecessarily light, at 202 pounds, in May.

“I’m gonna get it right this time,” he said.

So…

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Where We Belong: Madeline Sayet — Photo: Jon Burklund/Zanni Productions

Madeline Sayet opens Where We Belong () not with her own story, but one from the land she is performing on. In a voiceover, she tells of Nansonnan, one of the last traditional chiefs of the Piscataway, on whose territory Washingon, D.C. now sits. We hear that Nansonnan demanded justice from colonial authorities after the ransacking of her late daughter’s grave, one of the few times we can hear the Piscataway speak for themselves in records from that time. The story, she acknowledges, is not her own. It is of another woman, belonging to a different people, in another time.

When Sayet begins her own personal history, it is in a more surprising place. Recalling a flight from London to Stockholm, far from home, she opens her solo show with the tale of a brash Swedish border guard asking the passengers how they voted in the then-recent Brexit referendum. Not British herself, Sayet was, of course, unable to vote, but she satisfies the guard by telling him she would have voted to remain. It’s not lost on Sayet that she found safety on the “correct” side of a conflict, much the way the Mohegans did centuries ago, when, as she reflects, their leader Uncas allied with the British and thus spared his followers the genocidal fate of their Pequot kin.

The affinity between Nansonnan’s 1707 demand for justice, Uncas’ sage diplomacy and Sayet’s present-day journey to the UK to study…

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June 25, 2021

Take a themed boat tour on Connecticut’s most unique attraction

NEW LONDON, Ct. – The Thames River Heritage Park, in collaboration with the Mohegan Tribe, this weekend presents a new historic boat tour “Water, Wampum, and Medicine Wheels. Mohegan Life on the Thames.” Led by Tribal members, this fascinating tour will include stories demonstrating how crucial the Thames River was for food, wildlife, transportation, and trade as well as their relationship with the colonists. The Mohegans were the first in habitants along the Thames settling here toward the end of the 16th century. The Tribal interpreter will also explain the wampum system and will have some on hand.

The tour will run this Saturday at 4:30 pm and 6:15 pm. Additional dates for this tour and others offered by the Park can be found at https://www.thamesriverheritagepark.org/boat-tours.The tour is 75 minutes long and will originate at City Pier behind Union Station in the heart of New London’s Historic Waterfront District Tickets: Adult: $25, Children ages 4-12: $18 and Children ages 0-3: Free.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $18 for children under 12 who are accompanied by an adult. Tickets are available at www.thamesriverheritagepark.org

Our 2021 sponsors include Groton Utilities, 98.7 WNLC, The Day, Crockers Boatyard, the Garde Arts Center, Engineering and Consulting Center for Excellence, and Foxwoods Resort

About: The Thames River Heritage Park is a new kind of state park, one without boundaries. The park is a collection of more than a dozen national and historic sites along the shores of the Thames River – linked by a water taxi – that tell the stories that shaped our nation. Visit www.thamesriverheritagepark.organd be sure to follow us on Facebook.

This press release was produced by the…

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UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Bellator will head back to Mohegan Sun this August and bring a middleweight title fight with it.

Bellator 185-pound champion Gegard Mousasi will compete for the first time in 2021 when he battles John Salter. The fight will serve as the main event of Bellator 264 on Aug. 13.

Two people with knowledge of the matchup informed MMA Junkie of the booking Friday but asked to remain anonymous as the promotion has yet to make an official announcement.

Bellator announces Fedor Emelianenko return for Oct. 23 in Moscow

Mousasi (47-7-2 MMA, 5-1 BMMA) has not competed since October 2020 when he spoiled Bellator welterweight champion Douglas Lima’s bid at a title in a second division. The win earned him the then-vacant 185-pound title, which he held once prior before a loss to since-retired Rafael Lovato Jr.

Salter (18-4 MMA, 8-1 BMMA), meanwhile, has compiled a three-fight winning streak in the middleweight division since he too lost to Lovato in September 2018. The streak includes a submission over Chidi Njoukuani, a unanimous decision against Costello van Steenis, and a submission over Andrew Kapel.

No other fights have been announced at this time.

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June 25, 2021Updated: June 25, 2021 5:27 p.m.

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Terrificon will hold its annual comic convention from July 30 to August 1 in the Mohegan Sun Convention Center. 

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Terrificon will hold its annual comic convention from July 30 to August 1 in the Mohegan Sun Convention Center. 

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Terrificon will hold its annual comic convention from July 30 to August 1 in the Mohegan Sun Convention Center. 

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Terrificon, Connecticut’s “Terrific Comic Con,” was held at Mohegan Sun on August 17-19, 2018. Comic book and super hero fans interacted with TV and movie stars, listened to panels, dressed up in costumes and took photos. Were you…

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The Las Vegas gambling scene is beginning to experience new signs of life following the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Las Vegas Casinos Say They Are Doing Well As They Rebound

On Thursday, two Las Vegas casinos told the Nevada Gaming Commission (NGC) that they are doing well after the industry rebound from the pandemic. That’s a good thing, too, because one of them has to pay a $60,000 fine for violating COVID-19 protocols.

During the meeting, the NGC signed a settlement with the Mohegan Sun Casino in Virgin Hotels Las Vegas for violating the state’s protocols on March 25. The Mohegan Sun, based in Connecticut, operates the new Mohegan Sun Casino at Virgin Las Vegas, which opened in the place of the former Hard Rock Las Vegas.

The new CEO of Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment, Ray Pineault, and the owner of Sahara Las Vegas, Alex Meruelo, were visiting with the commission this week to talk about what’s in store for the casinos as the recovery continued. In addition to settling the violation, and probably, in part, as a result, Pineault was certified as a key executive and manager of the property.  

COVID-19 Protocol Violations Lead to Several Fines

The casino’s COVID-19 violations were due to failure of social distancing and mask-wearing measures enforcement. The $60,000 is the largest single fine; however, it is still lower than the $75,000 fine issued last fall for protocol violations at the Sahara and Grand Sierra Resort.

Commission Chairman John T. Moran, Jr. said, “This is a long way away from some of the complaints we saw during this horrible time of COVID. There was outright defiance out there and continual violations. You guys ponied up, and everything went well.” His comments were directed at both Pineault and Meruelo for their respective transgressions.

Nevada’s…

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