70 national volleyball federations support plans to reform the International Volleyball Federation and elect a new president, claims a newly formed committee to reflect on a new and more transparent international volleyball organisation. But reform seems elusive as the FIVB has just confirmed Ruben Acosta as the only candidate eligible to stand for election as president at the upcoming FIVB congress in Tokyo.

Journalists have also played active roles in the Juventus match fixing scandal. Eight journalists are currently under police investigation and last week icon tv host Aldo Biscardi was forced to resign from his hugely popular soccer talk show after allegations that the show had been too favourable to Juventus.

FIFA no longer wants to stop the sale of investigative reporter Andrew Jennings’ book ”Foul” in Switzerland. Until recently the book was subject to a temporary injunction issued by the cantonal high court in Zurich on FIFA’s behalf but the football organisation has now withdrawn its request to uphold the injunction.

Mario Goijman is one Argentinean who dislikes corruption and dishonesty. His strong conviction that sport leaders should act as role models has led him to a three year long battle against giants in the world of sport.

On 2 May 2006, a small news reporting team investigating a story was assaulted by a group of professional football players from Club Sport Ancash, writes the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS), Lima. The incident took place in Huaraz, capital of the Ancash region in northwestern Peru.

In the week of World Press Freedom Day, investigative reporter Andrew Jennings finally published his book “Foul!” with stories about bribes, vote rigging and ticket scandals in FIFA. It happened in the face of massive resistance from FIFA which since September 2005 has tried to stop the publication and recently succeeded in getting a ban on the sale of the book in Switzerland.

Denmark has won the bid to host the 2007 Homeless World Cup, the annual street soccer tournament which unites teams of homeless people from all over the world to kick off poverty Teams from 48 countries are expected to take part in the tournament in Copenhagen in July next year.

In Bangladesh, the government has set up an independent inquiry to find out why police attacked 20 sports journalists and photographers at Chittagong Divisonal Stadium during the lunch break of a cricket match between Bangladesh and Australia on Sunday 16 April.