Blood Doping In Olympics, Drugs In NASCAR And Now In Scrabble....

From The Orlando Sentinel: One of the top young Scrabble players in the country has been kicked out of the game's national championship tournament in Florida after he was caught hiding blank letter tiles, organizers said Tuesday.
John D. Williams, Jr., executive director of the National Scrabble Association, said that a male player was ejected from the 350-player event in Round 24 of the 28-round event.
The cheating was spotted by a player at a nearby table, who noticed the ejected player conceal a pair of blank tiles by dropping them on the floor, organizers said. Blank tiles can be used as wild card letters. When confronted by the tournament director, he admitted to it, organizers said.
Williams, who has served as executive director for 25 years and co-authored a book on the popular Hasbro board game in 1993, said this was the first incident of cheating at a national tournament. However, he said it's been known to occur at smaller, regional events.
"It does happen no matter what. People will try to do this," he said. "It's the first time it's happened in a venue this big though. It's unfortunate. The Scrabble world is abuzz. The Internet is abuzz."
Williams would not identify the player by name or age because he's a minor. There are four divisions and he was competing in Division 3.
He said Division 3 is equal to "any great living-room player out there." http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-08-14/news/sns-ap-us-national-scrabble-cheating-20120814_1_scrabble-player-national-scrabble-association-national-tournament
What surprised me that there is a "Scrabble world". 
I like playing Scrabble and I never would have thought to cheat, other than trying to make up a word, but trying to hide the blank tiles is beyond something I would think of doing.
But this guy who was ejected has a future in Las Vegas at the table games.