To briefly recap the existing public record re: NBA referee Tim Donaghy and the possible fixing of games: *Donaghy claims he didn’t consciously fix games
As architect of the 2006-07 portion of the NBA betting scandal involving referee Tim Donaghy, pro gambler Jimmy Battista pleaded guilty in July 2008 to
I was going to post this at a later date, but the Billy Walters appearance on 60 Minutes last night, complete with its references and
I don’t think the 60 Minutes piece that aired last night broke any ground for those who have remotely followed the remarkable career of Billy
In the course of researching the big-time sports betting world, I soon discovered there was unanimous agreement among the dozens of people I interviewed (bookies,
[Note: This was originally posted in December 2010 and has been updated in September, November, and December 2019, and in January 2020] Far from the
Serious NBA betting scandal followers may recall that it was Joe Vito’s phone records that were first subpoenaed in the FBI probe which led to
[Note: this post was updated as of September 2020 to reflect that BET no longer posts the episode online and that it may be found
Discussed quite a bit in the latter portion of the updated (2007) version of my Black Brothers, Inc, Dawud Bey is back in the news.
According to an analysis of best-selling sociology titles published in the Spring 2010 issue of Contexts*, Black Brothers, Inc.: The Violent Rise and Fall of