Kind of interesting to think that there were people who played these games and probably viewed and felt the results in the same way that people that play Major League Baseball 2K10 (or in my case OOTP) do. I bet people used to play these games all day and keep track of a homemade league [...]

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Funny little story via Korea Beat, about a gambling ring in Korea using portable slot machines.
A member of the police said, “recently there have been a lot of these machines, which can be carried around in a James Bond-style case or disguised as furniture… It’s very difficult for us to catch them.”
In the Chungcheongbuk-do area [...]

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The CPBL’s La New Bears released switch-hitting leadoff man Tim Raines Jr. in late May after just 15 games.
Apparently the Bears had had enough of Raines Jr.’s ideal leadoff production, and abruptly showed him the door. He was hitting .327 with a .367 on-base percentage and 11 steals in only 55 at bats, caught [...]

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It seems a bit silly doing rankings for a four team league, but for those of you who are so inclined to follow the CPBL, here goes. The big story of the year thus far has been the emergence of the Sinon Bulls, and a handful of new foreign players making an impact on [...]

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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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