Friday, December 14, 2007

CBS Sportsline - Aug. 24, 1989 - Cincinnati Reds manager and former star player Pete Rose, baseball's career hit leader, is banned from the sport for life for betting on his own team. Rose steadfastly denies the gambling allegations until 2004, when he comes clean in .From gambling to drugs to ugly labor disputes, baseball's history is .

Detroit News - Despite 409-page Mitchell Report on drug use, it's doubtful that sport has willpower to clean up its act. The names tumbled . That's a veiled reference to gambling, another issue that shakes baseball. If it's too late or difficult to punish cheaters .Baseball strikes out with steroids

Guardian Unlimited - . ways of financing anti-corruption programmes. Dame Elizabeth Neville, the former chief constable of Wiltshire, will lead sport's soul-searching in a review of governing bodies' "integrity processes" and she will consider the impact of the Gambling Act .Digger: Review into integrity of sport