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“An exhaustively researched book threatening to overturn some comfortable assumptions about the NBA’s referee scandal…[Gaming the Game] delivers the intrigue you’d expect from a true crime thriller” ESPN.com’s True Hoop
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My comments on the ESPN the Magazine piece about Tim Donaghy and the 2003-07 NBA betting scandal – Part II
Some comments about my involvement with the ESPN piece and my work on the NBA betting scandal This is the definitive account of how Tim Donaghy conspired
My comments on the ESPN the Magazine piece about Tim Donaghy and the 2003-07 NBA betting scandal – Part I
As someone who has spent hundreds of hours researching the NBA betting scandal over a decade, including the publishing of a critically-acclaimed and best-selling book on the
On the FBI and the NBA “concluding” Tim Donaghy didn’t fix games
Let me first say…I CAN’T BELIEVE WE ARE STILL HAVING THIS DISCUSSION (a full decade on, no less). Listen to me. I’m begging you. Please listen
Appearance on the Betting Dork podcast from June 2011
In light of recent events, namely ESPN the Magazine‘s massive piece on the 2003-07 NBA betting scandal, VSIN host Gill Alexander re-posted an interview he
Legendary Investigative Reporter and Obit Writer Jim Nicholson Dies at 76
Anyone who has read any of my books on Philadelphia’s Black Mafia knows the name Jim Nicholson. James D. Nicholson’s crucial roles investigating and exposing
Interview and Gaming the Game mention in ESPN Chalk
David Purdum interviewed me for his ESPN.com Chalk article regarding the prospects of legalized sports gambling in Pennsylvania – “$12 billion in handle? Why Pennsylvania
Bob Voulgaris hired as Mavs’ director of quantitative research and development
By Adrian Wojnarowski and Zach Lowe In another example of how dramatically the NBA is embracing the gambling industry, the Dallas Mavericks are hiring former professional sports
Notes section of Black Brothers, Inc. 2005 edition
Readers of the 2007 version of Black Brothers, Inc.: The Violent Rise and Fall of Philadelphia’s Black Mafia (Milo Books) see this commentary in the
New film “Gold” and the infamous Bre-X mining scandal
The first time I caught the trailer for the new Matthew McConaughey movie “Gold” it was wildly obvious to me it was based – however loosely –
A couple of comments on David Stern’s quotes re: the 2003-07 NBA betting scandal
The former NBA Commissioner is featured in an interview by Nathan Rush for Athlon Sports (published 12/20/16). I am primarily interested in this exchange (emphases mine): How
