Various odds and sods...

I could probably make any of these a post on their own, but here are several stories which have fallen by the wayside this week:

• Two on e-sports:  First, Korean e-sports officials have now exposed a second Starcraft match-fixing scandal in Korea. Five years ago, the first one netted ten players in various forms of match-fixing.  The coach and at least two players of the Korean Starcraft team "Prime" have been banned by the Korean E-Sports Association (KeSPA) and are facing criminal charges, as are a number of financial backers meant to use the fixed results on the gambling of e-sports matches (yes, again, it seriously exists -- a daily-fantasy site had even started up until the recent Nevada decision forced them out of the state) for significant profit.  One of the two players received $26,700 US for his involvement.  For comparison, if we simply divided the purse money for the current League of Legends World Championships by the 5 players on each team for simplicity, a team would have to make the semifinals for a member of that team to make more than what this one player had made for fixing matches!  (PixelDynamo)
• Second, and I can guess I can break out the format:  
• Cloud 9:  "Hai":  500 Euros for violation of sportsmanship rules in the League of Legends World Championships.  Correctly noting that North American League of Legends is quite literally an LoL joke, Febvien was being interviewed and said openly that Cloud 9 would lose their match (North American teams lost every match of the second week to crash out of the Championships because they are weak and one-dimensional.  That's not simply an editorial:  the latter was basically shown to be true!) , to which Hai promptly threw the one-finger salute on camera, costing him 500 Euros.
• Another FIFA scandal, as now the 2006 World Cup has been exposed as bought by Germany, leading more than a few to believe the entire mess is going to be burnt to the ground by the time this is all over.
• A youth baseball administrator is in jail for bilking $90,000 from the New York Gothams youth baseball team.  William Jacobvitz has had a $20,000 bail set for over 50 unauthorized withdrawls against the team's bank account over a four-year period.  (Deadspin)