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Sports Gambling Pattern Brings Soccer Probe
LONDON, ENGLAND --
The fixing of sports events and the influence of gambling continues to be a problem for professional sports leagues. After many years of relative calm and a period of strong public confidence, recent scandals have caused headlines to question the legitimacy of some results.
Most recently, reports of unusual betting patterns in Asia on English soccer have resulted in an investigation. The English Football Association will launch a probe to determine whether any wrongdoing occurred during the Coca-Cola Classic.
Both the Gambling Commission and the soccer organization promise to look into the charges that halftime bets were placed oddly and in large amounts at Asian online casinos.
The accusation comes following several years of gambling scandals involving tennis and soccer.
While the public's short memory may result in the news seeming shocking, the truth is that gambling has always had deep roots with pro sports.
Boxing is famous for rumors of fixed fights, including bouts as major as the Ali-Liston shadow punch brawl. The Chicago Black Sox fixed the World Series for Arnold Rothstein, a gambler who was also involved in the evolution of the National Football League and the invention of the pointspread.
According to Joseph Harrigan of Sports Wagering Studies, the present is probably the best-protected of times, in terms of transparent and honest games. "The development of the Internet and online casinos has resulted in near-instantaneous trasmissions of information. Any suspicious activity anywhere in the world can be spotted and detected with proper vigilance."
So, while sports may seem at risk to undue gambling influences, both the amount of visibility and the huge sums at play within the games themselves result in possibly the most honest contests in history.
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