The old adage that it “takes a crook to catch a crook” became a reality when a former New York crime chief provided a fascinating insight into how match fixing takes place in the USA.

Jimmy Mohlala, member of the organising committee of the 2010 World Cup and ANC council speaker was shot and killed in front of his home this weekend. Last year Mohlala caused the suspension of senior officials within the ANC when he revealed manipulation of tenders regarding the construction of a 2010 World Cup Stadium.

The European Olympic Committee has honoured the man known as Europe’s last dictator, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, with an award “For Outstanding Contribution to the Olympic Movement”. Critics argue that sport is just one of his propaganda tools.

After the publication of Girl Unprotected, Laura Robinson was contacted by a woman who led her attention to yet another Canadian hockey scandal. In this article, first published in The Globe and Mail, Laura Robinson reveals how a Canadian girl's hockey team has hired a convicted felon, guilty of sexual assault amongst other things, as its new coach.

In 2004 North Americans a bizarre story began to unfold when police arrested NHL player Mike Danton after a play-off game on conspiracy to murder charges.

Many regulars at Play the Game conferences have been left amazed and outraged in equal measure by the research carried out by Canadian investigative journalist and academic Declan Hill, who has devoted years to researching the dangerous underworld that lies behind much of professional sport. Now, Hill has compiled his latest research into one book – The Fix.

Nearly a year after the initial incident, the Danish women’s national football team are still waiting to find out who it was that spied on them in a Chinese hotel room at the 2007 Women’s World Cup. Despite protests by the Danish players, FIFA are refusing to investigate claiming the incident is not a sporting matter, while the IOC cites a lack of jurisdiction prevents its Ethics Commission from probing further.

Sports journalists Muse Mohamed Osman and Shafici Mohyaddin Abokar, president and first vice president of the Somali Sports Press Association (SSPA) respectively, were detained by Mogadishu police officers last week and threatened with their lives.