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New in Knowledge Bank: Threats to sporting integrity: doping, match-fixing and corruption

23 April 2012

In a presentation given at the Crime and Sport Research Conference in Canberra, Australia on 23 March, Sport and Anti-doping Consultant Catherine Ordway discusses the threat of corruption in sport.[more]




Warning: “Anyone Can Fix”

03 October 2011

Match fixing is going through the same transition as popular music sales went through in the 1990s when it went online, author Declan Hill told delegates at the 2011 Play the Game conference. Asian sport is already much...[more]




Newest cricket scandal should be a wake-up call for governments

02 September 2010

A spot-fixing scandal has rocked international cricket as investigative journalists from the British newspaper, News of the World, went undercover to expose match-fixing activities on the Pakistani team.[more]




The murky world of illegal Asian gambling

20 July 2010

Every four years, during or after the World Cup, there is some breathless report of an "unprecedented" police raid on Asian illegal bookmaking operations. Now, yet another one is being announced in the world's press[more]




Sumo body-slammed by scandal

08 July 2010

The newest scandal to rock the sport of sumo are the allegations of gambling and ties to the infamous Japanese mob, the yakuza.[more]




New report examines threats to the integrity of sport

14 June 2010

The Examination of Threats to the Integrity of Sports was commissioned by the EU Sports Platform and has been launched in European Parliament. The report, elaborated by Danish research institute Oxford Research, outlines the key...[more]




Match-fixing has good odds in German lower leagues

10 December 2009

American newspaper, the New York Times went to Germany to take a closer look at the state of German football in the wake of the match-fixing scandal.[more]




The Fix: match-fixing in professional sport documented and exposed

01 September 2008

Many regulars at Play the Game conferences have been left amazed and outraged in equal measure by the research carried out by Canadian investigative journalist and academic Declan Hill, who has devoted years to researching the...[more]




Don Julio the Godfather the Argentine Behind Blatter

30 November 2005

Julio Grondona is said to be the man behind Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA. Ezequiel F. Moores speaks at Play the Game 2005 about his enormous influence in FIFA as well as his financial empire and by which paths it became a...[more]




FIFA hiding the bribes

30 November 2005

Investigative reporter Andrew Jennings speaks about his work of getting nearer the truth about corruption and bribery inside the top management of FIFA. The research Jennings shares at Play the Game's 2005 conference is part of...[more]




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