The need to win drives individuals to skirt the rules of fair play and engage in espionage in sports. Spying in the Americas Cup is a recurring theme within the sailing world. Wake Forest University complained that their game plan had been leaked to Louisville University. Baseball, football, sailing, Formula One or soccer (the other futbal) are examples of espionage in these walks of life, we regularly see the transfer of the contents of team’s playbooks and signals between competing teams through leveraging of insider knowledge.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3215122/the-need-to-be-victorious-espionage-in-sports.html