Chess, fishing, cornhole: why did cheating scandals plague sports in 2022?

As pressure grows on athletes to turn in elite performances, another side of human nature emerges, experts say

Altogether, it was quite a plunge for Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky, two stars of the professional fishing world. In a matter of weeks they went from nearly sealing top team honors to facing prison time.

Their alleged crime? Filling the insides of their five Lake Erie walleyes with stones and supermarket filets at a north-east Ohio angling tournament. The tournament director, Jason Fischer, sounded the alarm after gutting their catch, screaming: We got weights in fish!" The alleged perpetrators could only sit sheepishly behind the cops who had come to arrest them as an angry spectator mob closed in.