Its a shame.
First we get Barry Bonds,along with others,getting caught in the steroid drag net.Then we get the New England Patriots getting tape happy.And now the
last shoe has dropped,we find out the NBA playoffs were rigged at one point.
Not that this is overly suprising I suppose,but to hear confirmed,is a let down.
Sports is suppose to be an escape from the everyday BS for people.
But we are continualy being let down.
(Yahoo.com)-NEW YORK (AP)—NBA referees, influenced by cozy relationships with league officials, rigged a 2002 playoff series to force it to a
revenue-boosting seven games, a former referee at the center of a gambling scandal alleged Tuesday.
Without identifying anyone or naming teams, Tim Donaghy also claimed the NBA routinely encouraged refs to ring up bogus fouls to manipulate results
but discouraged them from calling technical fouls on star players to keep them in games and protect ticket sales and television ratings.
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