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In September 1913, heavyweight boxer Arthur Pelkey, who was the reigning World White Heavyweight Champion, submitted a signed letter to Roscoe Fawcett, sports editor of The Oregonian, which stated that he was involved in a fixed match on March 26, 1913, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada under the direction of his manager Tommy Burns.
The issue also affects a number of other sports across the world. [4] In May 2011, world governing body FIFA announced an anti-match fixing plan, [5] and in September 2012 FIFA President Sepp Blatter warned that match-fixing endangered "the integrity of the game". [6] In September 2014, the Council of Europe also announced they would tackle the ...
One of the best-known examples of gambling-related race fixing (in motorsports) is the 1933 Tripoli Grand Prix, in which the winning number of the lottery was determined by the number of the race-winning car. One ticket holder held the number belonging to Achille Varzi, contacted him and agreed to share the winning should he win. Varzi ...
The ensuing madness was one of the wilder and weirder stories in NFL lore — part who done it, part high-paid legal drama, part science lesson, part Rorschach test, part character assassination ...
Al Michaels is probably best known to current sports fans as the voice of ABC's "Monday Night Football," NBC's "Sunday Night Football" and Prime Video's "Thursday Night Football."
The first questionable call took place in the first quarter with the game tied 7-7. Buffalo had the ball near midfield, and Josh Allen found Curtis Samuel for an 8-yard gain on second-and-11.
On the final day of the 1904–05 season, Aston Villa and Manchester City played a particularly bad-tempered game, in which a number of fights broke out. [3] Four months later, it emerged that Villa captain Alec Leake had come forward with an accusation: that City's Billy Meredith had offered him £10 to allow City to win.
Luka Doncic had his best game yet for the Los Angeles Lakers, leading them to a 123-100 win at Denver that snapped the Nuggets' nine-game winning streak More » Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley power East-leading Cavaliers to 142-105 blowout of Knicks