We shouldn’t be surprised when David Stern — NBA commissioner and all-around business ninja — finds new ways to generate revenue for the league. But the fact that the NBA is getting a cut of the revenue generated by disgraced referee Tim Donaghy’s new book — indirectly — is a master-stroke, even for Stern. David [...]
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Ex-NBA referee Tim Donaghy — fresh off a stint in prison — spoke to Bob Simon of 60 Minutes about his role in the biggest scandal to hit the NBA in years. In the interview, Donaghy repeated his assertion that he never attempted to influence the outcome of games, and that he was able to [...]
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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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Interesting take on the NBA point-shaving case from The Wages of Wins. Their very well-reasoned point: the Black Sox scandal of the 1919 World Series (chronicled in the excellent movie and even better book Eight Men Out) didn’t actually hurt baseball attendance any. I’ll buy that. But is it really an apt comparison? After all, [...]
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Tremendous work by “calo2006″ over on YouTube, cutting together all of Tim Donaghy’s most questionable calls from Game 3 of the Spurs/Suns series.
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