The World Snooker Association, the leading governing body of the sports, had released an official statement cleaning up a snooker player named Matthew Selt from bribe suspicion. According to the statement, Selt underwent a disciplinary hearing last April, clarifying the rumors over his alleged bribe offering to his opponent at the Pontins International Open Series. 

To read this story between the lines, you should visit the snooker scene blog, that’s where I first learned about this story. In short, it started out in a blog post, wondering about the Association’s no comment policy over a rumor saying that a snooker player was found guilty of offering to a fellow player to lose at a match for £1,000 and was fined £2,000 at the governing body’s disciplinary hearing. A day after the post went online, World Snooker had released the above statement in their official website. And Dave H of the Snooker Scene blog was left with another question: if this rumor was untrue, why did they refuse to deny it in the first place? 

And while we are on the subject, how come snooker is the only sport where a player can bet on his games (providing he is not putting money on his losing)?

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