{"id":19511,"date":"2012-11-13T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T19:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=19511"},"modified":"2012-11-14T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T20:25:13","slug":"bestselling-author-to-talk-match-fixing-during-brock-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/11\/bestselling-author-to-talk-match-fixing-during-brock-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling author to talk match-fixing during Brock visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19512\" style=\"width: 142px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/declan-hill-copy.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19512\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19512 \" title=\"Declan Hill\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/declan-hill-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Declan Hill\" width=\"132\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Declan Hill<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a blight on the beautiful game &#8211; and any other sport.<\/p>\n<p>Match-fixing will be the topic of conversation when investigative journalist and bestselling author Declan Hill visits Brock next week to present The Road to Ruin: Why match-fixing is going to destroy sport and how Canadians can help.<\/p>\n<p>Hill will speak on Thursday, Nov. 22 from 4 to 5 p.m. in Academic South, room 204. His talk is presented by the Department of Sport Management.<\/p>\n<p>Hill, who has worked for CBC Radio and Television, and whose work has appeared in the Guardian, specializes in the study of organized crime and international issues.<\/p>\n<p>His book, <a title=\"Match Fixing - Declan Hill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howtofixasoccergame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime<\/a>, examined the corruption in international football and is an award-winning bestseller published in 17 languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a blight on the beautiful game &#8211; and any other sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":19512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[345,673,674,3331],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19541,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19511\/revisions\/19541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}