Many blame the betting industry, which offers wagers on not just the outcomes of contests, but also on virtually random events within them, such as the number of yellow cards issued in a football match, or the number of no-balls bowled during an innings in cricket.
The other reason is that declaring a match between two prints generally requires a certain number of points of similarity between them.
Some bookmakers stopped taking bets on the League Two match on Friday after a high number of bets on Bury to win.
The departure of two marquee signings will represent a major blow for the standing of Chinese football, which has sought to improve its image after a number of match-fixing scandals in recent years.
It led to a number of match-fixing inquiries in various parts of the cricket world and five players - Cronje, Pakistanis Salim Malik and Ata-ur-Rehman, and Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma of India - received life bans from the game.
However, in the Calcutta Cup match Scotland did a bit of a number on them, causing big problems at the breakdown.
Already a number of firms match people who have money to invest with people who want to borrow through Web sites.
The recently launched service has lots of new audio features like Scan and Match technology and licensing deals with a number of labels.
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Under the international governing body's new scoring system introduced in 2010, the winner of a match is determined by the number of set points won, not the overall total score of the arrows.
Soderling, the 23rd seed, was a rank outsider against the world number one who had never lost a match on the clay at Roland Garros and was a short-priced favorite to win a record fifth straight title.
With improving earnings and better than expected revenues, shares of World Wrestling Entertainment are not the Heavyweight Champion just yet, but are at least in a number 1 contenders match, as shares are up over 2% this afternoon.
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Mr Kidwai was one of a number of Aamir's friends who organised a football match in honour of the sport-mad teenager in the period after his death.
Based on that, the feds could arrest a number of people on Match.com alone!
The "Kinky Boots" haul did not match the record number of nominations for a musical, which is 15, set by "The Producers" in 2001 and "Billy Elliot" in 2009.
Chu appears to be an employee of Primary Global Research, one of a number of firms that match up industry experts and hedge funds to exchange information about public companies.
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An employee fingered by a no-match letter can go to another company and use the same bogus number and documents for a year or so, until another letter arrives.
In a later second round match, former wordl number one Ana Ivanovic of Serbia beat Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky 6-2 2-6 6-4.
The Football League, which governs the second, third, and fourth tiers of English soccer, actually limits the number of loan players a match-day squad can carry to five and permits no more than four loan signings in a season.
Bell, who made a pair in the 2005 Ashes Test at The Oval and went into the match without a century in 31 previous innings at number three, had been moved up the order despite a poor display at Headingley where England were crushed by an innings and 80 runs.
In Friday's third and final match, Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova beat world number two Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-6 6-0 in a consolation match between the two eliminated players.
The world number one set up match point with a serve-and-volley winner and then earned the victory when Lee hit a powerful backhand long.
And the world number one got to match point with a spectacular 'hotdog' through-the-legs shot that he later described as the best of his career.
Killie go to Fir Park to face Motherwell this weekend for their final match of the season and is set to make a number of changes to protect players from suspension.
In the end, it was Davydenko who brought the world number three back into the match with a poor game at 4-4, making a backhand error before going for too much on a cross-court forehand and dragging it into the tramlines on break point.
The top seed looked set to cruise through after taking the opening set, but Gulbis fought back in the next two sets and, despite wasting six previous match points, the world number 40 eventually went through 2-6 6-1 7-5 in a match littered with unforced errors.
However, not many expected Andy Robinson's men to extend their four-match unbeaten run with a victory over the world's number one-ranked side and so it proved, although the ease with which southern hemisphere behemoths secured the win was surprising.
Nadal's defeat also ended his 14-match unbeaten run on grass as the world number one made a number of uncharacteristic unforced errors to hand fellow Spaniard Lopez the victory.
"Bodies come in different shapes and sizes, and the very idea that there is a concrete qualifying number, and if someone can match it they're considered healthy, is wrong, " she says.
Jones will partner scrum-half Richie Rees for a second consecutive match and he has no qualms about the Blues number nine starting ahead of his former Scarlets team-mate Dwayne Peel.
South Africa, who finished five points clear of England, scored the opening try after nine minutes through Burger, playing out of position at number eight on his return from a two-match ban.
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