The four remaining CPBL teams–The Brother Elephants, Uni-President Lions, La New Bears, and Sinon Bulls–conducted a draft absorbing the players left unemployed by the dissolve of the D Media T Rex and Chinatrust Whales. Left-handed hitting outfielder Hsien Chia-shen, who hit .352 last season, was the first pick overall. Ni Fu Te was [...]

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New evidence of match fixing has emerged in the latest CPBL scandal, as 14 players–including six foreigners–have now been implicated. (The link for some reason only bothered to mention the foreigners involved).
The scandal has already caused one of the leagues six teams–the now defunct D Media T-Rex–to fold, and now involves Chinatrust Whales [...]

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Actually, this isn’t as bad as game fixing, so the headline should probably read Korean Field Hockey League Kind of Bad, but Not as Bad as Taiwanese Pro Baseball League. However, this implicates 102 people and nearly every team in the league.
Video of Korean news report showing the league’s crooked books here.
From Korea Beat:
102 people [...]

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It seems like rumors of the CPBL’s demise have become as predictable as Nick Markakis’ second-half surges, but things have gone from bad to worse for Taiwan’s professional league in recent weeks. Just a few days after the Brother Elephants–Taiwan’s most popular professional team–threatened to fold at the end of the 2007 season, new [...]

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And somewhere Anthony Cornero is turning in his grave.
Macau’s booming resorts, along with casinos being built in Singapore and mulled in other countries, could drive the growth. Of the 23 industry executives, analysts and academics polled, more than 80 percent said Asia’s dominance was very likely or likely.
“The results … foretell a remarkable future for [...]

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