The rocky marriage of team sports and illicit gambling dates back more than a century in the United States, bookended by the game-fixing scandal by eight Chicago White Sox players in the 1919 World Series and the current FBI investigation into prop betting and poker game fixing involving various NBA figures. No major professional sport appears immune to gambling scandals, as the following partial timeline suggests.

NBA

1950: Sol Levy, an NBA referee from 1948-51, faced seven criminal counts related to fixing games during the 1950-51 season, primarily by calling fouls to affect scoring. As The New York Times reported, he received a three-year sentence in New York in 1953 but won an appeal in 1954 that led to his release.

1951: A gambling scandal at the City College of New York was not

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