Will you win Man of the Match, or be chucked in the sin bin?
Thứ Hai, 25 tháng 1, 2016
Nick Lindahl told friends he intended to lose a match in 2013, allowing them to place bets on the outcome.
Australian former professional tennis player Nick Lindahl has pleaded guilty to deliberately losing a match in 2013 in order to obtain financial advantage.
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Lindahl, 27, once a rising star of Australian tennis, allegedly told police "that's what tennis players do" when asked why he had "tanked" the match, Sydney's Burwood local court heard on Monday.
The court was told that Lindahl, through a third party, offered to lose a match at the Toowoomba Futures Six Tournament in September 2013 if his opponent was willing to pay him money to do so. The court heard the opponent, Andrew Corbett, refused the offer, believing he could beat Lindahl in his own right.
Corbett then flagged the offer with tennis authorities, who began an investigation and contacted Victoria Police.
Police prosecutor Kate Young told the court that Lindahl then informed two friends he would tank the match, allowing them to place bets on the outcome.
Nick LIndahl competing at the Australian Open in 2010. Cameron Spencer / Getty Images
The court heard that betting agency Sportsbet became suspicious of betting activity around the match, and suspended betting.
Lindahl was arrested at his Sydney home in February last year.
Young told the court that when questioned by police as to why he had thrown the match, Lindahl replied that "that's what tennis players do" when they don't think they can win.
Lindahl, who reached a career-high ranking of 187, has pleaded not guilty to a charge that he attempted to conceal the match-fixing by telling a friend to destroy evidence.
The court heard that nine months after the match, authorities intercepted a phone call between Lindahl and his friend, Matthew Fox, in which Lindahl advised Fox to dispose of incriminating computer and mobile phone data that could implicate the two in match-fixing.
The court was told Lindahl was overheard telling Fox to "just get rid of everything" on a phone app and to hide his laptop at a friend's house.
When Fox asked what he should do if he was called in for an interview by authorities, Lindahl allegedly told him to hide his phone in a drawer.
The case comes on the same day that online betting on a mixed doubles match at the Australian Open was suspended by a major gambling website after suspicious activity suggested the game might have been fixed.
Judge Michelle Goodwin will hand down her decision on 15 April.
The mixed doubles match took place days after a BuzzFeed News investigation revealed evidence suggesting rampant match fixing in the sport.
Lara Arruabarrena
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David Marrero
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Online betting on a tennis mixed doubles match at the Australian Open was suspended Sunday by a major gambling website after suspicious activity suggested the game might have been fixed, the New York Times reported.
The potentially fixed match on Sunday came just days after a BuzzFeed News and BBC investigation showed evidence suggesting match fixing has run rampant in the sport for years with little action on the part of tennis officials.
Pinnacle Sports, one of the world's largest online gaming sites, told the Times unusually large amounts of money poured in for the Melbourne match, featuring little known players Andrea Hlavackova and Lukasz Kubot against Spain's Lara Arruabarrena and David Marrero.
Hlavackova and Kubot won the match, 6-0, 6-3, with the first set lasting only 20 minutes.
The head of Pinnacle Sports, Marco Blume, told the Times that the match should have been an obscure contest with little money wagered.
Instead, he said money poured in, mostly for Hlavackova and Kubot — an indication the match was rigged and prompting Pinnacle Sports to suspend betting.
"We saw a small number of people placing a large amount of money," Blume said.
The website's chief said police were informed of the matter.
This is a developing news story. Check back for updates or follow BuzzFeed News on Twitter.
Best. Walkies. Ever.
Meet Ludivine. She's a two-and-a-half year old bloodhound from Elkmont, Alabama, who just won seventh place in the town's half-marathon.
The morning of the race, her owner let her out to relieve herself. Ludivine, who frequently roams the small town and is well known by its 400-something residents, wandered all the way to the local half-marathon and started running. She completed all 13.1 miles.
"All I did was open the door, and she ran the race on her own accord," April Hamlin, Ludivine's owner, told Runner's World.
She even got a medal!
She looks so proud!!!
Hamlin only found out about her pup's great accomplishment when friends who were volunteering at the race texted her with photos. She was surprised, to say the least.
This is next level.
While most NYC residents were inside, taking refuge from the city's first major blizzard of 2016, Casey Neistat, a 34-year-old YouTuber decided to go snowboarding through the streets of the Big Apple.
Neistat is a popular YouTuber and his account boasts nearly 2 million subscribers. You may remember Neistat from last year when he filmed his friend and collaboration partner, Jesse Wellens, as Aladdin traveling on a "magic carpet."
Neistat told BuzzFeed that he views New York City as a "character" in the video that he makes.
"When it came to taking advantage of a storm this rare, riding around on a snowboard seemed like a clear choice," he said.
Casey Neistat / Via youtube.com
He says that he had no reservations while snowboarding on the icy terrain. However, there were a few difficulties encountered while filming.
They didn't have rope to use while traveling through the city so they resorted to using a 30-foot HDMI cable. The other skier in the video, Oscar, used two extension cords that were tied together.
Casey Neistat / Via youtube.com
And as far as getting around the traveling ban issued by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Neistat says they avoided it by driving "really carefully."
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