What is the least corrupt pro sport (by process of elimination)

That was an xp, not sure why I didn't edit my post when I saw the second reply. Oh well.

I bet there are some major lacrosse scandals that none of us know about.

I've heard the air hockey pro league is rife with corruption

no cricket no credibility

― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, April 19, 2016 7:28 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cricket belongs on a LEAST corrupt pro sport poll?

golf

my first thought was hockey but i don't know the sport well enough to know if it's true.

Strip Poker

Ice hockey seems innocent until you hear about the recent wave of suicide/OD by ex-players with brain damage.

Also if we extend ice hockey to the KHL/Russian league I'm sure we can find plenty of corruption there.

Are concussions inherently corrupt I ask myself

corruption of the brain

if non-us leagues are included in reference to hockey, then so should baseball.

and if that is the case, baseball players habitually abuse steroids in the dominican republic. it has been reported that steroids is so widespread and easily available that some are not even illegal there. and a lot of the players in the us who were abusing it were actually of dominican origin. i would also pose the low-bar challenge of finding corruption in the cuban and venezuelan baseball leagues, though i've not searched myself.

nhl scandals or corruption, much like the nba, involve physical abuse in and outside the rink. a recent one that comes to mind is the deportation of la kings defenceman slava voynov due to domestic violence. hitting and injuring goalscorers or key players is also controversial with the league issuing varying degrees of punishment that some feel are not warranted.

like someone mentioned above, mental illness is a problem, which maybe manifests itself through violence, and this is encouraged by the use of instigators and reinforcers.

the big five leagues (nfl, nhl, nba, mlb, and english premier league) have equal amounts of corruption, but not all in the same areas, making the thread's question a loaded one. it is a complex issue and if all offences are considered to be equally immoral, then you can pick your least favourite sport and nominate that one. it is also worth considering how much a particular league perpetuates it.

StarCraft

What about tennis? The recent meldonium thing with Sharapova is the only tennis doping scandal I've ever heard of.

Lol

What about tennis? The recent meldonium thing with Sharapova is the only tennis doping scandal I've ever heard of.

Huge tennis match fixing scandal under investigation: http://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/the-tennis-racket#.jbJZkPZp2j

Not shocked at all by another cycling scandal, but the technology to hide motors inside bicycle frames is fascinating in a "whoa, they can do that?" way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/sports/cycling/with-a-discreet-motor-doping-the-bike-instead-of-the-cyclist.html

no cricket no credibility

LOL you can hardly be more wrong!

Is it possible that the answer to this is actually rugby?

Probably :(

It's whichever sport has the least money in it, likely.

Ultimate Frisbee it is then

Unless a sport has a pretty vigorous anti-PED program, it's probably rife with PED misuse. The idea that a sport like basketball would be without PED seems very unlikely to me. They're all corrupt, but some of them are good at hiding it.

Voted soccer, which come to think of it was dumb. Even if they're all corrupt, not all of them are FIFA-level lets-let-them-kill-thousands-of-guest-workers-to-host-this-tournament corrupt.

"corruption" shd be some sort of ratio between amount of money in the sport and amount of notable dodgy dealing so no-budget shit can't count

i don't think "corruption" is the right bag for the wide array of shitty behavior being described itt

well I was tempted to just go with "worst" but that's even more vague

yeah, i don't mean to nitpick, just thinkin bout what it all means etc...

pro league of legends, obviously

hah I assume every one of those guys pops adderal like a fiend

exactly, level playing field

All the scandals tied to golf are because of corruption among its amateur player set, i.e. rich fuckheads? Am I missing something?

oh shit awesome you guys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sporting_scandals

golf stuff off the top of my head:

- augusta not letting women in
- vijay cheating
- anchor putters

guess that's not corruption, just regular lame bullshit

that dude they wouldn't let ride a cart

not a pro sport, but there's probably nothing more corrupt than american college football (and basketball, to a slightly lesser extent)

NCAA football and basketball would definitely win.

I bet there are some major lacrosse scandals that none of us know about.

Ha I was going to name check lacrosse just because there's so little money in it in the US that pro players also have day jobs.

Clocking out early scandal follows last month's devastating reports of using work laundry facilities to wash kit, has this slum sport any new depths to reach

hockey seems least corrupt imo but part of that is prob comparatively less attn on it

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Whoever said "StarCraft" - nope:

http://kotaku.com/match-fixing-report-shows-how-gambling-has-ruined-korea-1772739147

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Football (American) 	1

Very funny crank yanker here.

Baseball is run pretty above-board these days (unlike the out and out collusion that happened in the past), has the strongest union in American sports, huge average and top end salaries though players get a relatively low percentage of overall revenue (~40% IIRC vs 50%+ in the other major sports). It's all built on TV deals that can't last in the age of cordcutting, but for now everyone's winning.

Minor leaguers are exploited but less so than the kids forced into college to play football or basketball.

Shocked that basketball won - between questionable officiating and the owners forcing a lockout even though they were all profitable, the league is pretty fucked up.

ILH wins

the juicemen always come out on top

otm

4 soccer voters really need to explain themselves