As Cody Rhodes & Ted DiBiase did their best to take advantage of their opponents' strife, their opponents did themselves no favors, with Shane going so far as to break up Batista's pin. With the ring warrior scoring the pinfall earning a match against The Legend Killer on the next Raw, WWE Champion Triple H, Batista & Shane McMahon were more concerned with getting a victory for themselves than with working as a team. In Raw's main event, there wasn't a Draft pick on the line, but instead something far more valuable to the competitors: An opportunity to exact retribution from Randy Orton. The Legacy The Game earned an opportunity to go one-on-one with Randy Orton on the next Raw WWE Champion Triple H, Batista & Shane McMahon def. Though the WWE Universe might not have known what to expect with the 2009 Draft, they should know to "Expect Everything" for the very first episode of WWE Superstars this Thursday at 8 ET/5 WT only on WGN America. Not only did the Draft bring Orton's nemesis Triple H to Monday nights, but his protégés in The Legacy failed to defeat The Game, Batista & Shane McMahon, meaning that The Legend Killer will have to face The King of Kings on the next Raw. While the WWE Universe certainly won, with such high-profile Superstars as Rey Mysterio, Matt Hardy, CM Punk and Big Show changing brands and WWE Champion Triple H bringing Raw its second World Title, the night was a rough one for Randy Orton. However, it would need to clean up its act.ATLANTA - The 2009 Draft saw the entire WWE roster shaken up, and even after a special three-hour Raw, the changes are still coming with the Supplemental Draft, live on WWE.com all day Wednesday. Despite the international repercussions of the case, Brazil is confident that it would not suffer greater penalties in terms of being excluded from the sport. The decision was made by Brazil’s sports court, and the players themselves were part of the country’s first and second divisions, pointing to widespread corruption in soccer. Meanwhile, the investigation that began last year, and named 16 people who are said to have been involved in various match-fixing offenses, has finally seen all of the defendants suspended from professional soccer for the time being. The organizers of these offenses in Brazil are said to have communicated with contacts and counterparts in multiple countries, including the United States, Greece, and Lithuania. In fact, an investigation was opened in November looking into specific games. The Congressional investigation does not mean that Brazil has not been trying to tackle the issue before. We don’t know whether a given yellow card, a red card or a penalty was supposed to happen or not,” Carreras lamented. Congressman Felipe Carreras said that the probe would now seek to do away with corruption in Brazilian soccer. According to investigators, players were offered between $10,000 and $20,000 to perform certain actions as part of games, such as receiving yellow cards or helping the opponents get penalty kicks. The inquiry is set to last 120 days and it will involve 34 lawmakers. The state of Goias has been named as one of the main states where the offenses took place with both federal policy and the district attorney’s office in the state now involved. The scandal, as outlined last week, has to do with players getting booked – this is receiving red and yellow cards – purposefully to ensure that certain sports wagering outcomes happened. Congressional Probe Seeks to Crack Down on Sports Corruption in Brazil The country’s lower house of Congress confirmed on Wednesday that it had launched an investigation into the spreading match-fixing scandal that could have broader implications for the South American region, and it has already impacted Major League Soccer, the topflight league in the United States.
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