At an independent disciplinary hearing Wednesday, snooker professional John Higgins was cleared of all match-fixing charges levelled against him by a UK newspaper which had alleged that the three-time world snooker champion had agreed to take a bribe of approximately £260,000 to lose four specific snooker frames.
Higgins has however been banned from the sport for six months and fined £75,000 for admitting to giving the impression he would have gone along with the scam and [...]
