A Europol report last week claimed that 380 soccer games in Europe and 680 worldwide were ‘suspicious’. Match-fixing has tainted the world’s most popular sport, drawn in major crime gangs, and ruined players’ lives, writes Sheila Norman-Culp

FIFA’s clean-up drive could see three senior football officials named as having received kickbacks from a company that sold World Cup TV rights.

Sepp Blatter will today unveil his plans for FIFA reforms – with UEFA president Michel Platini urging him to keep his promises to implement change.

IRELAND’S Pat McQuaid is confident that he will be president of cycling’s governing body, the UCI, before the end of the month despite the turbulence created in recent weeks by the former German Olympic athlete Sylvia Schenk.

IRISHMAN Pat McQuaid is confident any inquiry into his relationship with the International Cycling Union (UCI) will clear all parties of wrong-doing.