Sports in Danger: How a Tide of Corruption and Match-Fixing Threatens Canadian and International Sports

Thursday, January 22, 2015 7:00 PM EST (UTC–05:00)
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Declan Hill, investigative journalist, academic and documentary film maker, explores the scope of match-fixing and corruption in international and domestic sporting events and the role of organized crime therein. Hill is an academic specialist in informal governance, deep state analysis and corruption and as the author of The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime (McClelland & Stewart, 2010) and The Insider's Guide to Match-Fixing in Football (Anne McDermid & Associates, Ltd., 2013), brings extensive first-hand accounts and an academic analysis of the current state of corruption in the sporting world.

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