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Former LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling rocked headlines recently amidst allegations of racist comments made during a conversation in September 2013.

It was reported by TMZ that Sterling reacted negatively to a picture of his friend V. Stiviano, who had recently uploaded a picture of her and Magic Johnson on Instagram. It’s claimed he remarked: “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people.”

League commissioner Adam Silver made the controversial decision to ban Sterling from the NBA and he was fined $2.5 million, facing a public backlash from coaches and players including LeBron James, who said: “Donald Sterling has no place in the NBA.” Even president Barack Obama had his two cents, deeming Sterling’s comments “incredibly offensive and racist.”

Sterling now has no affiliation with the team and it is rumored that he has handed over control of the LA Clippers to his wife Shelly Sterling, who is now negotiating the sale of the team.

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The Sterling comments were not the first controversy to hit the National Basketball Association. In 2002, Tim Donaghy, an NBA referee at the time fixed many games including game six of the NBA Finals between the Kings and the Lakers. The allegations that Donaghy affected the outcome and eventual champion were vehemently denied by then NBA commissioner David Stern, but Donaghy went on to serve 15 months in federal prisons for his offenses. After his prison sentence Tim went on to do a series of interviews with SBR admitting that he not only did he fix games but other refs skew the calls to get the big name team through to the next round. The disgraced referee was caught because the odds, particularly the totals, jumped and steamed in one direction in the games he was officiating. To this day you can look at the odds history on websites that monitor lines and see when exactly the line jumped. People who were in on his scam were also caught this way as they were the first to bet the line before it rapidly changed and changed by large margins.

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As with any sport, the NBA has also been the cause of much violence involving fans, with no occasion more memorable than the Malice at the Palace in 2004. Known by many as the “most infamous brawl in NBA history,” a fight broke out in the last minute of a game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons.

After the fight between the players was quickly broken up, an audience member quickly threw a drink at the Pacers’ Ron Artest, who responded by entering the crowd, sparking the biggest brawl to disgrace the NBA. Nine players were suspended without pay, and NBA commissioner David Stern said it was “20 times worse than it looked in TV.”

While the NBA’s scandals may do nothing for the game’s reputation, they certainly generate a lot of media coverage, which is sure proof that they won’t be stopping any time soon.

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The Hertz UK Moto GP had a particularly strong media presence this year. Partly because of the emergence of the sport, and partly due to the rise of some promising new British riders such as Bradley Smith.

Smith is still only 22 years old, and joins the likes of Cal Crutchlow as UK riders can begin to dream of building a national superbike profile similar to that enjoyed by Spain. Of course there’s a long way to go before the British Moto GP riders can really challenge the likes of Marquez, Pedrosa and Lorenzo, but at least UK riders are beginning to form a presence in the sport.

Smith has had a series of ninth place finishes so far this season, and has even rose as high as sixth at the German Grand Prix and the Gran Premi Aperol De Catalunya.

At the most recent Hertz British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Smith finished a respectable ninth place once again, and claimed that he may have made the wrong tyre choice by opting for a softer rear tyre for enhanced grip. If the weather had gone his way the race may have been a whole lot different, but at least the young British rider seems like he’s building some decent consistency.

Bradley Smith currently sits a respectable eleventh in the championship standings and captured the headlines at the Italian Grand Prix after a horrific finger injury. A ninth place finish at Mugello had fans of the sport admiring Smith’s spirit in the face of adversity, in a trade where the threat of injury is ever present. Just take a look at Dani Pedrosa’s list of injuries and see how fraught with danger Moto GP can be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani_Pedrosa#Injuries.

If Smith is to sustain a decent challenge this season he needs to break more regularly into the top 6, from which a reputation as a real top rider might grow. Crutchlow is currently the most prized British rider and has just signed a lucrative deal with Ducati, but Crutchlow is five years Smith’s senior and there’s every chance the younger rider could emulate and even surpass his Yamaha Tech 3 counterpart.

We’ve just completed the twelfth race of an eighteen race season and it would be realistic for Smith to claim tenth position in the rider’s championship. He currently sits just two points behind Aleix Espargaro, and to break the top ten would be a sizeable achievement.

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