[Rosie O'Donnell]

Watchdog organizations cite MLS as a league that could be particularly susceptible to manipulation because of its increasing prestige and telecast distribution, low salaries, and churn of international players entering and leaving MLS on brief contracts, some only a few months long.

In 2010, Declan Hill, author of The Fix, told me that MLS players had complained to him that some of their teammates were working for gambling organizations by supplying inside information on injuries and availability. Although that alone doesn’t indicate players and referees are fixing the results of games, it does indicate that fixers are working within MLS and that some players have established, profitable relationships with match fixers.