Sports in the United States and around the world have been connected with betting scandals for decades.

Perhaps the most notorious instance came in 1919, when eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired to fix games in that year's World Series at the behest of gamblers. The players were motivated in part by the miserliness of their owner, Charles Comiskey, who underpaid them.

Eight players, including Joe Jackson -- known by the nickname Shoeless Joe -- were banned from baseball for life, though in May the MLB commissioner, Rob Manfred, removed them from the permanently ineligible list.

The team became known as the Black Sox, and the scandal was the basis for the 1988 film "Eight Men Out."

Pete Rose, one of baseball's greatest players and the game's career hits leader, was caught u

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