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Why are so many sports governing bodies based in Switzerland?[more]

An acceptance of hooliganism is growing and fuelling both right wing extremism and corruption, warned a trio of academic researchers at Play The Game 2011. In Argentina, clubs pay fans not to cause trouble whilst in Germany...[more]

Sport is huge business and the influence of the underworld is getting greater by the year. The threat is so acute that it needs to be addressed head on, argues David Howman, Director General of WADA, in the fifth contribution to...[more]

Newly elected World Cup host and home to the next winter Olympics, Russia, is a dangerous place to do investigative journalism. The newspaper Novaya Gazeta, is so worried about their employees that the journalists have been...[more]

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]

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]

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

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.[more]

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.[more]

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]