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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.




FIFA call in Interpol to combat illegal betting

03 December 2009

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.




Taiwan's president vows to clean up match-fixing in baseball

01 December 2009

In Taiwan, President Ma Ying-jeou has put his whole administration behind an effort to clean up match-fixing in the country's professional baseball league. Taiwan News reports that Vice President Eric Liluan Chu will head up a...




Declan Hill: I told you so

21 November 2009

"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.




A tale of two football associations

17 November 2009

Recognition or denial? Two very different approaches on how to tackle the threat of match fixing in football met journalist and author Declan Hill promoting his book "The Fix" in Belgium and the Netherlands.




Sports federations should work more closely together to combat corruption

08 October 2009

Tennis was applauded by IOC President Rogge for its anti-match-fixing efforts




IOC confirms establishment of betting control for future Olympics

04 October 2009

A spokeswoman for the International Olympic Committee, Emmanuelle Moreau, confirms what Play the Game wrote earlier today, that the IOC is setting up a new company, International Sports Monitoring, to watch over betting patterns...




Call for action against all forms of corruption in sport

04 October 2009

Open letter to the IOC President and the International Olympic Committee, gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark on the occasion of the 121st IOC Session and the XIII IOC Congress




48 stakeholders in sport ask the IOC to combat corruption effectively

04 October 2009

Everybody can now join 48 Olympian athletes, trainers, academics, media and business people in signing up for a call on the IOC to combat all forms of corruption in sport




European betting agencies call for independent global sports anti-corruption agency

22 September 2009

The European Sports Security Association (ESSA) has issued a call for the establishment of a robust independent global sports anti-corruption body.




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