As the Philadelphia Phillies attempt to close out the World Series tonight after rain suspended their game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday, Major League Baseball has been keeping busy seizing counterfeit apparel from street vendors. From the Philadelphia Inquirer: Since the playoffs began, MLB investigators have seized more than 5,000 counterfeit T-shirts and caps from [...]

Major League Baseball is ramping up its anti-counterfeit program to ensure that World Series Memorabilia is kept safe from counterfeits. From the Boston Globe: Once the first inning of every playoff game ends, Major League Baseball’s authentication program goes into effect. During Game 5 of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park, groundskeepers rushed onto the [...]

Ticket scalpers in China lost money when Chinese Olympic hero Liu Xiang dropped out of the 110 meters hurdles to injury.  From BBC News: Olympic tickets are being sold for as little as a tenth of their previous black-market value after a Chinese athlete dropped out. The price for tickets to see the 110m hurdles plummeted after athletics [...]

The Boston Globe has an article on the makers of Titleist Golf Balls fight against counterfeits in China.  From the Boston Globe:  Jason Yao lives a dangerous life for a guy in the golf business. He gets death threats. He raids factories and markets. He shakes down informants and hangs out with private investigators. He has 10 aliases. China [...]

The International Olympic Committee is asking Sweden to shut down file-sharing site The Pirate Bay for distributing Olympic ceremonies. From the AP (via Yahoo Sports): IOC Vice President Gunilla Lindberg urged Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask to help prevent what she called “the rampant piracy of the opening ceremony,” in a letter dated Aug. 18., which was [...]

CNN has a report on Formula One racing and its battle against counterfeit goods. From CNN International: Formula One prides itself on authenticity. It’s the world’s premier motorsport series, where nothing but the very best is good enough. Cars are built using the most expensive materials and the smallest defective part can cause an accident. So it is not [...]

5 days before the Opening Ceremony, some people who have bought tickets online are finding out that they were scammed will be unable to enter the venue.  From Reuters (via Yahoo News): Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials [...]

Major League Baseball has installed a new counterfeit detection tag on every baseball so that a home run ball being sold may be verified. From Reuters: After a player hits a home run, a security guard will approach the fan who catches the ball with a handheld computer. The guard will scan the electronic tag and enter [...]

New Era, makers of the Official Major League Baseball caps, are fighting an endless battle against counterfeit baseball caps. From Buffalo Business First: “At one point in time we were shutting down 6,000 individual eBay auctions a week featuring counterfeit caps, imitation caps or auctions using our trademarks, even though they were not New Era caps,” said [...]

Vancouver is taking steps to prevent the counterfeiting of Olympic merchandise for the 2010 Winter Olympics. From the Vancouver Sun: 2010 Olympic Winter Games organizers are preparing themselves for an expected post-Beijing wave of counterfeit goods. With barely two months until the completion of the Summer Games in Beijing, the attention of the world — and counterfeiters — [...]