So Sports Minister Mark Arbib thinks nationwide 10-year jail terms for anybody involved in match fixing will solve what the Sydney Morning Herald described this morning as “the biggest threat to sport since doping”? Good luck.
Online sports betting
Last Bets: regulating gambling’s grip on sport
Having a bet on the baseball might be illegal in every American state bar Nevada, but every morning on the sports pages are the odds. It’s a reminder to those who would like to outlaw betting on Australian sports.
The strange case of Janko v Horacio
Janko Tipsarevic, of Serbia, and Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos faced off in the Kremlin Cup. Zeballos won. Nothing too strange about that, except the manner in which the match unfolded soon raised alarm bells and red flags, says Jonathan Howcroft.
Political snippets: Who’s this Gough bloke?
Malcolm Turnbull and company are wasting their energy trying to conjure up the bad old days of the long gone Whitlam Government as a way of attacking the big spending plans of the Rudd one.
Sports betting explodes, but where will the money land?
The rapid growth in sports betting in Australia, confirmed last week by the largest TAB operator, Tabcorp, is going to lead to renewed demands for greater regulation of sports betting, and revenue sharing with major sporting bodies.
