four separate sports-integrity cases broke in the same window: the icc documented corruptors infiltrating franchise cricket leagues, argentina's football association came under fbi money-laundering investigation over hundreds of millions moving through us banks, ex-nba players were charged with bribing a guard to manipulate in-game stats for bets, and two former draftkings employees allegedly paid fresno state players to underperform. the clustering of betting-driven corruption across cricket, football, and basketball in one cycle is structurally unusual.