Report: Ohio sportsbooks to halt bets on Alabama baseball citing “suspicious activity”

Legal sportsbooks in Ohio are not accepting any wagers on Alabama baseball, according to a directive issued on Monday and obtained by ESPN. Matthew T. Shuler, the executive director of the Ohio Casino Control Commission, made the decision after “suspicious wagering activity” was detected in the Crimson Tide’s 8-6 road loss to No. 1-ranked LSU on April 28. U.S. Integrity, a Las Vegas-based group that monitors “data to see if discrepancies coincide with notable player or coaching events, reveal officiating abnormalities or are indicative of the misuse of insider information,”...