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Fall of Troy…..Again

refpolice — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:24:16 +0000

We’ve been wondering for a long time now ho much longer the NCAA can look the other way while the USC Trojan athletic department and AD Mike Garrett continue to thumb their nose at the them. First, Reggie Bush’s parent were living in a fancy condo pain for by a marketing agent who is now involved in a lawsuit against Reggie Bush. Apparently Reggie renegged on his part of the deal by signing a different again when he went to the NFL. Then there was the OJ Mayo situation, which by most account suggest he has been a ‘Pro’ since he was about 12 years old. You’d think the Mike Garrett and his staff might have done a little homework on this guy before recruiting him, but when the bank vault is open and the guard are all asleep, might as well be greedy. And now this. Wow, what a surprise. I mean who would have ever dreamed that Joe McKnight would be driving a car that was paid for by someone else? It really is a shocker, honestly. So, we really have no choice but ask the powers that be at the NCAA, What the f*** is taking so long? These guy are all dirty, so let’s declare Bush ineligible, rescind his Heisman, scrub him off the books, erase the 2004 nation Title, slap them with recruiting and Bowl restrictions for 3 years, require that Mike Garrett resign, fire Pete Carroll so we can all move on. The longer this lingers, the sillier the NCAA looks. I hear from a friend that the Water Polo team is also been flagrantly violating recruiting rules for years (they just won the National Championship again 2 weeks ago). Maybe Charlie Weiss was right when he suggested Pete Carroll was living with a grad student up in Malibu instead of where he was supposed to be living. Because that is the only explanation I can think of as to why he has let this mess get as big as it has.

40 Minutes for Tim Donaghy Story

refpolice — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:15:16 +0000

CBS dedicated 40 minutes on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes news magazine to the Tim Donaghy interview. Donaghy has just been released from prison and now faces a life with no money, no family and handful of mobsters tracking him. But the interview was intriguing because of the way Donaghy described the fraternity of NBA officials and how the deal with certain players. It was this information, he alleges, he used to win 70% – 80% of the bets he placed on NBA games. He refuted the notion that he rigged games with his foul calling, and pointed to a 2007 game where he tossed San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich for arguing. He had money with the Spurs. His prime example was Allen Iverson, who had threatened an officials and received, according to Donaghy and his officiating colleagues, too a light fine and suspension from the league. So, they decided to mete out their own punishment by making Iverson’s life miserable on the court. Instead of his usual trips to the foul line, he got bumps, bruises and traveling calls. In the end, it was his bookie buddy that let it slip to a mob contact that he was taking bets from an NBA official. The mob naturally wanted in on the action and leaned on Donaghy before turning him in to the Feds. But the mob, the betting and the information he used to win those bets is only part of the story here. The real part is how believable he was in disclosing that NBA officials had players, coaches, GMs and owners they liked and ones they didn’t like and that they called games accordingly. He said that in games he wasn’t officiating, he’d call up one who was and ask how the games was going to be officiated, and then bet accordingly. In another detailed example, he detailed an incident where the Los Angeles Lakers had submitted a tape of 25 plays that they felt were erroneously officiated. The NBA agreed that 22 of the 25 plays indeed had been missed calls and that told officials to protect Kobe Bryant. Translation: bet the Lakers because Kobe is going to get to the line. The league telling officials how to officiate certain teams is bad enough, and the fact that Donaghy appeared so believable is even worse. the league now braces for the release of Donaghy’s book Personal Foul, due out shortly. I think David Stern would rather get a lump of coal in his stocking.

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refpolice — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:51:07 +0000