Yahoo – The IRB has ramped up their anti-corruption fight with warnings that people involved in match-fixing could face a lifetime ban while players even placing a bet on a game could be slapped with a one-year suspension. The regulations, however, are seen as more preventive in nature, the New Zealand Rugby Union’s general manager of professional rugby, Neil Sorensen, said. “We haven’t heard of anyone betting (illegally) on rugby but we don’t want to risk it,” Sorensen told Reuters. “But the more global that rugby gets and the more there is live television coverage to places where illegal betting…