So, with Tebow Time on ice this week, we refer to the "Worst Kept Secret in Sports" department for this one...

Declan Hill has a wonderful book called "The Fix", in which he talks about Asian sports syndicates and how they tamper with soccer.

Well, sounds like the Italian government also wants a word with some of these bastards.

The Italian government, once again, is investigating match-fixing in Serie B and Serie A, the two top Italian soccer leagues. Three matches in B involve a particular team (Atalanta), and their former captain is one of 17 people arrested for match-fixing, which is directly against the law in Italy.

And the culprits? From the prosecutor?

"This is not the end, but just a starting point," Cremona prosecutor Roberto Di Martino said Monday. "Let's hope it's a starting point in cleaning up the beautiful game that is football. One of the suspects has admitted that these operations have been going on for over 10 years.

"At the top of the organization are men from Singapore, who are those who move the money, but the shareholders are divided from the West, to the Far East, to South America and they manage with their men how to change the outcome of football matches."

Anyone really surprised?