Proposed Big Brother

12/20/2008		Proposed Big Brother
Home History Games News Dictionary		This story revolves around the belief that if we just work together, truly anything can be accomplished. Or so hope major names and representatives from gambling bodies all over the world, hoping that unity can bring about some change in the ever growing scandals of sports betting scams. A meeting last week in Brussels during which representatives from the games of cricket, rugby, and football met to discuss possibilities of change successfully concluded with the proposal of a governing organization for worldwide sports betting. All owner present were connected to the Sports Rights Coalition, and all were concerned with exactly one issue: how to stop sports scams. Setting up athletes, races, and teams to lose for profit has become a plague in recent months, forcing managers and owners to take action. The action is now hoped to be the development of a unified body that would have control and power to investigate and punish suspicious betting activity. The need is obvious. Just recently, the Football Association was forced to call off their investigation into a allegedly fixed match between Norwich City and Derby County on behalf of their limited capacities. Unable to muster any useful information out of the Asian companies accused, the case had to be dropped. If such a enforcement agency can be developed, however, punishments such as fines, and exclusion from major world events like the World Cup would be enforced strictly. One of the advisors for the British National Governing Bodies of Sport had the following to say on the proposal: “The meeting in Brussels saw the international sports community unite to urge politicians to apply the same focus to tackling betting corruption as they have to doping. Just as the fight against doping turned the corner when every country's government signed up to take action, a similar approach is needed with sports betting. Match-fixing is worse than doping because it is cheating to lose, rather than cheating to win."

12/20/2008

Proposed Big Brother

This story revolves around the belief that if we just work together, truly anything can be accomplished. Or so hope major names and representatives from gambling bodies all over the world, hoping that unity can bring about some change in the ever growing scandals of sports betting scams.

A meeting last week in Brussels during which representatives from the games of cricket, rugby, and football met to discuss possibilities of change successfully concluded with the proposal of a governing organization for worldwide sports betting. All owner present were connected to the Sports Rights Coalition, and all were concerned with exactly one issue: how to stop sports scams. Setting up athletes, races, and teams to lose for profit has become a plague in recent months, forcing managers and owners to take action. The action is now hoped to be the development of a unified body that would have control and power to investigate and punish suspicious betting activity.

The need is obvious. Just recently, the Football Association was forced to call off their investigation into a allegedly fixed match between Norwich City and Derby County on behalf of their limited capacities. Unable to muster any useful information out of the Asian companies accused, the case had to be dropped. If such a enforcement agency can be developed, however, punishments such as fines, and exclusion from major world events like the World Cup would be enforced strictly.

One of the advisors for the British National Governing Bodies of Sport had the following to say on the proposal: “The meeting in Brussels saw the international sports community unite to urge politicians to apply the same focus to tackling betting corruption as they have to doping. Just as the fight against doping turned the corner when every country's government signed up to take action, a similar approach is needed with sports betting. Match-fixing is worse than doping because it is cheating to lose, rather than cheating to win."