by Charlie on October 29, 2009
Disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy was supposed to release a tell-all book next month. The release has been postponed indefinitely — the folks at Random House pulled the release after receiving a strongly-worded memo from David Stern’s lawyers. Fortunately, the guys at Deadspin.com generally don’t take lawsuit threats all that seriously; they’ve obtained a copy [...]
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by Charlie on October 26, 2007
It appears that gambling among NBA referees is far more widespread… and far less serious… than many had feared. ESPN’s Chris Sheridan reports: Stern said an internal review had found that all of the league’s 56 referees violated the contractual prohibition against engaging in gambling, with more than half of them admitting to placing wagers [...]
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