A lot of people trust professional sports in the USA. I'd bet the games are routinely fixed, and I'd never bet on the pro games. Knowledgeable gamblers know to bet on college sports instead. Why? D'oh!

When the lights went out during the SB yesterday, the first thing I thought of was Asian betting syndicates. This may seem odd, but there were a series of such incidents in European soccer in recent years where Asian betting syndicates were implicated. Either because Asians will bet on anything, including the lights going out, but also because it affects either the score (match abandonment), or at least the play.

There have been suspicions of match fixing in Europe for years, mostly in the lower leagues where salaries are significantly lower and the players more likely to be tempted. Of course, once a player takes the money, the syndicate owns them forever...

cheaper to fix them

Western conference finals.
Almost a decade ago
Need say no more.
Game was fixed. That was the start of a long slow decline of the NBA


Steroid era in baseball. I call that widespread fixing of games because not all teams were roided equally

The tuck rule. Oakland Raiders and New England that snowy night some years back

Its shocking that the Champions league is as clean as it is Luckily it becomes harder to fix games when super teams from the EPL and La Liga are involved because they already make so much coin


Yes folks. Pro sports has always been dirty. Can be almost clean at times. That's the most you can really say

... you're probably right.

The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime is a must-read for fans. Match-fixing for Asian gambling consortiums reaches right into World Cup matches and is endemic in some league play. Disheartening for a fan of Serie A.