Why are so many sports governing bodies based in Switzerland?

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 hooligans are central to organising right-wing extremists.

Match fixing is going through the same transition as popular music sales went through in the 1990s when it went online, author Declan Hill told delegates at the 2011 Play the Game conference. Asian sport is already much destroyed, he claimed, and if allowed to continue unabated, match fixing “will destroy modern sport” across the world.

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 provided with stun guns to defend themselves.

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.