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Posts Tagged ‘cheating’


Weekend News Round Up

Well, this weekend happened to be a very busy one, but I took it off and spent some time with friends instead of paying attention to the running world. I was not able to score a Red Sox playoff ticket, although I did get to go to the circus across the street from Fenway. They [...]

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German match-fixing conviction upheld after appeal

Last year, Robert Hoyzer went on trial for rigging German soccer games that he refereed. Hoyzer was sentenced to 29 months. His conviction was upheld this morning following his appeal of the sentence. The federal appeals court rejected the prosecution’s request to overturn the convictions. Prosecutor Hartmut Schneider had argued that match-fixing could not be [...]

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German match-fixing trials begin this week

The trial over match-fixing by referees and players in the German soccer league began this week. Of the six defendants in the case, 2 are referees, one was a player, and the other three were gamblers who bet on the games.

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Michelle Wie disqualified for accidently cheating

Michelle Wie played her first professional golf tournament this weekend, but she was disqualified after unwittingly cheating rather than taking a 2 stroke penalty. A spectator told LPGA rules official Robert Smith on Sunday that he thought Wie had dropped the ball nearer the hole when she had taken relief from an unplayable lie in [...]

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