Broadmeadow man and former table tennis pro Adam Green accused of being head of betting syndicate

Nine racehorses, six trainers and two jockeys are 17 finalists who will be on the National Museum of Racing's 2024 Hall of Fame ballot, as chosen by the museum's Hall of Fame nominating committee. The finalists are racehorses Blind Luck, Game On Dude, Gio Ponti, Gun Runner, Havre de Grace, Justify, Kona Gold, Lady Eli and Rags to Riches; trainers…

There's been a lot of discussion over the years on journalists voting for sports awards. That is an unusual level of potential impact on a story for a journalist, as awards impact everything from contracts to endorsements to Hall of Fame talk (and even some league-specific rules, such as who NBA teams can rest). And that's led to some news…

Saturday's Ricoh Woodbine Mile is a Breeders' Cup Challenge Series "Win and You're In" race for the FanDuel Breeders' Cup Mile Presented by PDJF, offering the winner a fees-paid berth to the Nov. 4 race on the second day of the World Championships at Santa Anita Park. The $1 million Woodbine Mile annually draws some of the best middle-distance turf…

After a five-week festival, Michael Burgess looks back on the hits and misses of the 2023 Fifa World Cup. Best match: The final. That's an unusual scenario, as often deciders are tepid, cagey affairs, butthis one had everything. Both teams hit the woodwork, there was a missed penalty, a glorious goal, numerous other opportunities, plenty of sublime…

New Zealand-adopted Fiji journalist, sports writer, national news agency reporter, anti-coup activist, media freedom advocate, storyteller and mentor Sri Krishnamurthi has died. He was just two weeks shy of his 60th birthday. Born on 15 August 1963, just after his twin brother Murali, Sri grew up in the port city of Lautoka, Fiji's second largest…

A Newcastle man who netted almost half a million dollars in an international table tennis betting syndicate today avoided jail. Newcastle District Court heard Adam Green became involved in the illegal activity, after losing his job during covid. Tyson Cottrill is a senior reporter and newsreader for Nine NBN News, based in Newcastle.As the Chief…

A FORMER top Australian table tennis player used inside information and multiple sports betting accounts to place about 1100 bets on fixed matches in Ukraine at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, raking in almost half a million dollars for himself and associates overseas. Newcastle man Adam Michael Green, now 43, was expected to face a complex…

Nearly 23 years after the muck of cricket match-fixing in India was uncovered by the Delhi Police, comes a new documentary on Netflix recounting that period from the people who were involved in it from all sides. Sports journalists who were the envy of plenty for being paid to do what they love - watch cricket - were suddenly jolted out of their…

Caught Out: Crime Corruption Cricket, a Netflix documentary that released on March 17, delves into one of the biggest scandals that rocked the cricket-crazed nation of India. It dives into one of the biggest scandals that shook the cricket-loving Indians to the core. The country has long regarded its best cricketers as heroes. But what if a…

America's Best Racing launched season 2 of "A Stake in Stardom" with an expanded roster of personalities. New to the series are NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport, shown above, Fox Sports reporter Lindsay Czarniak, Fox Sports talk show host Joy Taylor, ESPN's Anita Marks, and influencer-model Loren Izabel. They join returning the 2022 inaugural…

Perhaps the most tragic outcome of the cricket match-fixing scandal that came to light in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as sports writer Sharda Ugra points out in the Netflix documentary Caught Out, was that it broke the hearts of thousands of fans, many of whom never watched another game of cricket again. Their faith in cricket and the…

It's not mere coincidence that the largest scandal in Indian (if not world) cricket historical past wasn't, strictly talking, damaged by an all-access sports activities journalist. Aniruddha Bahal was virtually filling in for the sports activities reporter, when he uncovered'match-fixing' occurring in cricket - with a cover-story in Outlook,…

The New York Mets are making more changes. Bryn Alderson is no longer an assistant general manager and is leaving the Mets, SNY's Andy Martino reports. BUY METS TICKETS: STUBHUB, VIVID SEATS, TICKETSMARTER, TICKETMASTER Alderson joined the Mets in 2011 as a pro scout. He was named pro scouting director in 2019 and became assistant to the GM under…

Whatever the ultimate outcome, history has already been made in the voting for the 2022 Lexington Herald-Leader Kentucky Sports Figure of the Year Award. As we will reveal below, among the 10 finalists - as selected in voting by 143 sports media members from around the commonwealth - to become the 42nd winner of the Kentucky Sports Figure of the…

What is Rory McIlroy's net worth? Rory McIlroy is one of the top professional golfers in the world and a former world number. He's a four-time major champion and started his career as a successful amateur, topping the World Amateur Golf Ranking at the age of 17 years old. Once he turned professional, Rory surprised the world with his conquest of…

Ray Kerrison, a former racing columnist for the New York Post known as a fearless reporter who was never afraid to tackle the most sensitive subjects, passed away Sunday. He was 92. His death was first reported by the Post, for whom he covered 32 Kentucky Derbies. A native of Australia, Kerrision came to the Post in 1977 and was a regular on the…

NBC Sports Philadelphia has a new Flyers host. The network is adding Ashlyn Sullivan to its Flyers coverage, where she'll primarily host the Flyers pre- and postgame shows alongside 94.1 WIP host Al Morganti and former Flyers winger Scott Hartnell. Sullivan will make her NBC Sports Philadelphia debut Thursday ahead of the Flyers' 7 p.m. game…

Markus Lynn Betts, popularly known as Mookie Betts, has become a famous face in the MLB World. He has had a career spanning more than eight years. In that short time itself, the 30-year-old has been able to notch up plenty of awards and become a two-time World Series winner. Mookie Betts was born on 7th October, 1992. He was born in Nashville,…

Every ASU student knows it: If you ride a bike to campus, bring a lock, and even then, be prepared to come back from class with it stolen. It happened to Sara Hambleton last month. Hambleton, a sophomore studying marketing, parked her bike outside of the Sun Devil Fitness Complex to go to work. She locked it up using U-lock, considered to be the…

Cessnock trainer Jeremy Sylvester wasn't surprised when long-shot If You Think So dominated out front to hand him a fourth Highway Handicap win at Rosehill on Saturday. The well-bred If You Think So was a $31 chance in the 1500-metre class 3 Highway Plate to open the program after winning just once, at Armidale on December 1, from 12 starts. The…

Aside from salary cap and roster space issues, there is a reason why the Knights aren't desperately chasing a quick fix for the five-eighth roll at the club next season. Let's call it'Project Tex'. 'Project Tex' is why coach Adam O'Brien has put a red line through the likes of veterans Keiran Foran and Benji Marshall and is not even entertaining…

Seven West Media has been questioned by the ASX about conspicuous share price and volume spikes that have seen its stock rise by more than 50 per cent in the past three days, reports The Australian's Leo Shanahan. The debt-laden media company has denied any imminent announcement despite a restructure of the network's debt expected to be finalised…

In 2000, Sanjeev Chawla's Indian passport was revoked. By Indo-Asian News Service: With Delhi Police finally getting its hands around key bookie Sanjeev Chawla's neck as he sets foot in India on Thursday almost two decades after one of the biggest match-fixing scandals erupted on the international cricket scene, it is time to know the key accused…

A telling line in Alex McKinnon and his estranged wife Teigan's statements about their break-up shows they may have been at odds about the split becoming public - as she's spotted for the first time since the shock announcement. The wheelchair-bound former football star and the mum-of-three both issued similar statements following their separation…