Sheldon Adelson<\/a>, struck up an interest in building a billion-dollar football stadium in the heart of Las Vegas. The stadium plan would see the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) host an NFL franchise, a first for the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAnd set for relocation was the Oakland Raiders team. Commitees were formed and stadium locations scouted, as a hotel room tax was planned to help subsidize the odd couple. But by the time the 2016-17 season kicked off in September, a deal hadn’t been finalized, and NFL team owners were yet to vote.<\/p>\n
Then Oakland woke up and started campaigning for its own new stadium to keep the boys at home. The prospect of the Las Vegas Raiders kicking a ball anytime soon still seems to be at least a season away, if it ever touches down at all.<\/p>\n
Gruesome Twosome #3: Stockton University Hits the Boardwalk<\/b><\/h2>\n
It would be amiss of us to suggest that all of New Jersey’s residents can’t do without a regular visit to the boardwalk empire. However, it still came as something of a shock when a prominent Garden State university to decided to up and move to the gambling mecca.<\/p>\n
Stockton University, home to almost 9,000 students, successfully upgraded from a college in 2015. However, some $17 million of reinvestment was approved in January to help the university move into the site of the old Atlantic Club Casino.<\/p>\n
It’s not known whether a Stockton card-counting team will be set up in honor of the famous MIT legends of the ’80s and ’90s.<\/p>\n
Gruesome Twosome #4: Donald Rumsfeld & Online Card Games<\/b><\/h2>\n
Politicians have long had an affinity with card games: Truman and Nixon were both fiendish poker players, of course. But what do you do when you’ve finished your political career and all you have to look back on is an invasion of Iraq and a few billion-dollar oil contracts?<\/p>\n
That’s the fate that has affected former defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. Now 83, Rumsfeld entered the lucrative “freemium” app market by launching Churchill Solitaire.<\/p>\n
Named after the legendary British Prime Minister, who loved the game (without access to the internet, presumably), the online version is free to download. However, as with all good apps, the game comes with many in-app purchases. Whether invading countries is part of the bundle is not known at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No question, 2016 saw some strange partnerships, interesting deals, and all kinds of dramatic decisions hit the headlines when it came to the gaming industry worldwide. From the weird (an Australian billionaire gaming mogul and his overly dramatic diva) to the downright odd (a former defense secretary tries out the world of online gambling), 2016 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":40385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,11,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Strangest Gaming Bedfellows of 2016: Match Ups We Never Saw Coming<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n