Rumors are rife that a big-name gambling lord is behind the disappearance of 31 cockfight aficionados. Some little birds told me that the desaparecidos were involved in what is known in sabong (cockfighting) circles as tiope or game-fixing. Tiope is injuring a fighting cock before a game with its owner and his friends betting on the other cock. The 31 missing men did not reckon with the consequences of their cheating, the little birds tweeted. The gambling lord has in his payroll many police and members of the underworld who would do his bidding. The little birds said the gambling lord has bee…