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Toledo Gambling Scandal: 99% Funny Business

Sports betting expert R.J. Bell says there is a 99% certainty that some kind of funny business was going on with Toledo football in 2005.Movements in the betting line are responses to disproportionate amounts of money bet a certain way. During the 2005 Toledo football regular season, lines on their team's games moved two...

This Is Why Legal Gambling Helps

Has it really been 7 years since the last misguided attempts by college coaches and the NCAA to try and ban legal gambling on college sports. Cynically, I expect that the Toledo point shaving scandal that is now blossoming will renew calls for the sort of ban. They will cite the gambling on college sports as being the...

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02/16/11 Ex-wrestlers indicted in Japan gambling scandal Source: Asia One Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday indicted three former sumo wrestlers for allegedly organising illegal gambling as the ancient sport reels from a series of scandals.
02/15/11 Crime âº Papers on four sumo wrestlers sent to... Source: Tokyo Classified Police sent papers to prosecutors Tuesday on nine people, including four active sumo wrestlers and one former wrestler, suspected of gambling on the results of professional baseball games.
01/21/11 Korean celebrities caught in gambling scandals Source: The Manila Bulletin - Philippines Korean entertainer Shin Jung Hwan is facing charges of violating Korea's foreign exchange rules and gambling in Cebu City. The disgraced comedian returned to South Korea on Jan.19 after five months of hiding abroad following his infamous gambling at a hotel in Cebu City last September.
09/21/10 Crime âº Ex-wrestler pleads guilty to extorting money... Source: Tokyo Classified A former sumo wrestler pleaded guilty Tuesday to the charge of extorting 3.5 million yen from former ozeki Kotomitsuki over illegal gambling on professional baseball games in a scandal that rocked Japan's national sport earlier this year.

Background on gambling scandal

In organised sports, match fixing or sports fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law.

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