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Mattress Mack's record-breaking $75 million payout on a wager that the Houston Astros would win the World Series will cost Caesars and Penn Entertainment big in their digital businesses this quarter. With the Astros' second-ever World Series win on Saturday, McIngvale clinched a $75 million payout. "I think if Mattress Mack doesn't hit, we'll be profitable in Q4," Snowden said then. We just wrote the biggest check in sports betting history to Mattress Mack for $30,000,000. "My real interest is making sure the customers win because the customers will be happy and thrilled and smiling," he said.

Jim McIngvale, the Texas furniture salesman who famously hedges sports bets with furniture promotions, said he has placed a total of $10 million of bets on his beloved Houston Astros in this year's World Series. This time, If you spend $3,000 or more on a mattress, your purchase is free – if the Astros win. Mack placed the largest of his World Series bets, $3 million, on May 13 with Caesars at 10-1 on the Astros to win. His World Series bets have taken him all over the country, as sports gambling is not legal in his home state of Texas, he said. In 2017, when the Astros won the World Series, Mack doled out millions in refunds.

☆ Texas man charged with murder in fatal shooting of woman, 21, who beat him at basketball, police and family say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A Dallas, Texas, man has been arrested, accused of fatally shooting a 21-year-old woman after she beat him at a game of basketball, police and the victim's family say. Cameron Hogg, 31, was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in connection with the fatal Oct. 3 shooting of Asia Womack, 21, the Dallas Police Department announced. Womack’s aunt told NBC Dallas Fort-Worth that she was killed over a basketball game. Courtesy Womack family“We’re taking it kind of hard because it was senseless,” Juanita Smith told the station earlier this month. “She called him a brother.”Womack’s obituary remembered her as a young woman who had a passion for basketball from an early age.

☆ Jellysmack is launching a new studio that will produce months' worth of original content for creators
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jellysmack will produce original content for creators through its new division, JellySmash. When creators are burned out or simply seeking to scale, JellySmash can film two months' worth of videos in three days. Jellysmack on Tuesday unveiled a new original content division called JellySmash Productions that the company has been incubating for the past year. JellySmash will monetize the content by taking a cut of creators' ad dollars on the back-end of the content. Its flagship offering, the Jellysmack Creator Program, takes existing videos and optimizes them for distribution on other platforms.

☆ How the leader of a 20-person change management firm gave all their employees a 30-day paid sabbatical
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-22 | by ( Catherine Henderson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

This year, they introduced a month-long sabbatical for all employees to rest and reflect. Mack is a Black, nonbinary, queer, trilingual organizer based in Chicago, and they founded MMG, a research and change management firm that currently has 20 employees, most of whom are Black. This year, they launched a 30-day paid sabbatical for all 20 employees at MMG and permanently made the company's full-time workweek 30 hours. After the success of the sabbatical, MMG has committed to continuing the program again in 2022. In previous interviews with Insider, Mack spoke to their cutting-edge work during the pandemic.

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