Knowledge bank: Match fixing is emerging everywhere football is played and can no longer be termed one-offs. More often than not match fixing occurs in less prominent leagues and lower divisions and the bets are set on teams to lose.

The World Anti-Doping Agency WADA and Interpol, the world’s largest police organisation, have announced that they will start working closely together to combat the growing problems with trafficking of doping substances.

Knowledge bank: Laura Robinson wrote Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada’s National Sport and Black Tights: Women, Sport and Sexuality. In this article and book review, she writes a personal and open letter to Sheldon Kennedy - a victim of sexual violence in Canadian Hockey.

Knowledge bank: excerpt from article by John Hoberman on race and athletics

Knowledge bank: Fillipos Syrigos made himself highly unpopular when he exposed a scam revolving around the Greek Karaiskaki Stadium.

Knownledge bank: Trinidad Express journalist Lasana Liburd looks back on an investigative World Cup ticket story that shook FIFA

Knowledge bank: ISL's serious liquidity problems in the course of 2000 and 2001 still causes great concern in the financial sector in FIFA. Since a settlement, President Blatter has maintained that FIFA has lost ‘only’ 42-46 million dollars on the ISL bankruptcy. This is a small amount compared to the 340 million dollar loss Blatter stated earlier in a letter to the 24 members of FIFA’s Executive Committee.

Knowledge bank: The following timeline traces the main incidents in the complex of cases between ISL and FIFA that have arisen in the wake of the bankruptcy of the sports marketing agency ISL.