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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.

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

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

The Alqaeda-Linked Alshabab militants in Somalia arrested the Chairman of Dahabshil Football Club, Abdulkadir Ali Barre, Somali football federation and family members confirmed Monday.

Special criminal courts set up by the South African government, at the recommendation of FIFA, to deal with crime during the World Cup are quick, efficient and poised to set an example for the currently sluggish judicial system.

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...

At least nine Somali teenagers have been killed by mortar fires while they were playing football game at a village stadium in the Wardhigley district in Mogadishu Wednesday, Somali Football Federation confirmed.

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.

FIFA has been forced to call in international crime-fighters Interpol to form a task-force to combat a wave of match-fixing and bribery that is sweeping through the game.

"I told you so", Declan Hill says in a press statement on the large probe into match-fixing leading to 17 arrests and confiscation of documents, cash and valuables after 50 raids in three European countries.