Shaq has filed papers on Shaunie O’ Neal, his wife of 5 years.
According to the AP the filing asks Shaunie to provide a ‘correct accounting of all money, funds, stocks, bonds, and other securities ‘ that she had access to or obtained during the marriage.
Was she stashing some chips to bounce on her own?
Take the $32,000,000 crib in Florida… get the kids… and she’s set.
Bob Delaney, the NBA’s most racist ref according to UnderneathSports.com, is releasing a new book in January.
Delaney was the ref who went undercover and infiltrate thed mob… secretly went to Florida and started working negotiations outside of his duties and the investigation was quickly closed. He ended up snitching out many guys he had befriended. A true NBA ref in the making. He started officiating some games in order to lose the weight he had gained while undercover.
Thats pretty much the story… if you want to still buy the book… knock yourself out.
“… it’s not a revelation that certain coaches and certain referees have issues, and certain players, and statistically you can see certain things happening. We all live with that. You cover the sport, or are with the sport enough to know … it happens.”
- David Stern
So you do know it happens. You’re not just blissfully ignorant.
So how many games does Joey Crawford get to ref against San Antonio this year? Why not just make it all of them. Surely you don’t want the Spurs back in the championship. Joey clearly doesn’t like Tim Duncan. Heck, you can give the other team a 1 ref advantage for all 82 games next year. Judging by the last game, you can eject Duncan every game!
So if you know a team has an unfair advantage going in based on the refs, you’re not giving the teams or the fans a fair game are you?
So you’ve knowingly deceived people into thinking that the games would be played fairly. You in fact knew that one team had an advantage based on issues between refs and players, etc.
Anybody else interested in a class action suit to get a refund on tickets to fraudulently represented competitions?
- A Dallas Stars billboard near the American Airlines Center, the building they share with the Dallas Mavericks
It’s beginning to look like it’s better to choke your coach than your dog.
Vick is being suspended indefinitely without pay. Sprewell only got one year. Sprewell was able to sue the NBA to get his pay back. I wouldn’t be surprised if Vick is able to do the same.
Ultimately, Goodell is taking away his right to ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’. Regardless of his crime, the judge will determine what he should repay society. Goodell is giving him the financial death penalty.
Sprewell played in the NBA after his ‘crime’. Will Vick ever take the field again?
I think the only justice in all of this is that Petrino, who after leaving Louisville after the first year of a ten year contract, went to coach Atlanta a fairly average team with a superstar quarterback, now sans superstar. (Where’s Brohm when you need him?)
“Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy struck a deal Monday to name twenty other NBA referees who broke the league’s gambling rules. The refs could all lose their jobs. ”
As if David Stern didn’t already have enough on his plate with the contamination of his league by a crooked ref, the commish now has a shooting at DeShawn Stevenson’s Orlando home to deal with.
The Washington Wizards’ guard was supposedly asleep in his gated community home early Monday morning after an evening of clubbin’ ended with Stevenson and some of his boys bringing home some sluts women from the club. According to witnesses, the group was followed into the gated suburban community by a Cadillac Escalade and the driver of the Caddy got into an argument with one of the hos patrons from the club before opening fire. During the rain of gunfire, bullets tore up Stevenson’s Lexus SUV, his BMW and his crib, but Stevenson’s crew claims that they simply ran into the house and never returned fire. Apparently, the group of, uh, groupies just vanished into the night in their hooker heels and exposing outfits.
But, like always, something isn’t adding up in this high profile crime because Stevenson’s entourage is saying they never fired any weapons at the vehicle, but investigators found blood on one of the cars and bullet casings in the driveway. And about 30 minutes after the shootout, a man named Curtis Ruff drove up to a hospital in an Escalade with gunshot wounds to his leg. Ruff refused to cooperate, but the authorities feel pretty confident that he’s the dude they’re looking for. Well, duh!
However, either this guy decided to blast himself in the leg or he’s a worse shot than Harry from Dumb and Dumber OR DeShawn’s boys are lying about the return fire. We’re guessing it’s the latter. And what makes this even more suspicious is that nobody involved in the incident wanted to press charges. Now, we know that rich athletes are a completely different breed of people than us, but we can guarantee that if someone starts shooting up our home then we’re going after his ass. We’re guessing that like Michael Vick and all the other liars in the world of sports, Stevenson will eventually come out with a completely different story regarding the incident. Because, as of now, this story makes Jayson Williams’ tale of playfully twirling a shotgun before the shooting death of his limo driver seem somewhat plausible.
Disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy admitted yesterday to pocketing more than $30,000 by passing inside tips on games to pals in an illegal gambling ring.
The crooked ex-official whose dirty dealings soiled the reputation of the pro hoops game pleaded guilty to charges that could put him behind bars for 25 years.
Every time his tip was on the mark, the rogue official was paid $5,000.
“I was in a unique position to pick the outcome of NBA games,” Donaghy, 40, told a judge in Brooklyn Federal Court. “I received cash payments for successful picks. Some of my picks included games I had been assigned to referee.”
From the insider perch, Donaghy added, “I was aware of the manner in which officials interacted with players and called games, as well as the condition of players prior to a game.”
Federal prosecutors alleged that Donaghy was betting on games he refereed back to 2003. But he denied that yesterday as he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to transmit bets and wagers.
Donaghy said he used a special code to communicate his tips to his betting buddies, James Battista, 42, and Thomas Martino, 41, two ex-high school classmates also charged yesterday.
Battista’s lawyer Jack McMahon said outside court he expects Donaghy has made a deal with prosecutors and will give testimony against his client.
“Mr. Donaghy walked away with a nice situation for himself,” McMahon said. “He is the linchpin, and he seems to have worked his way into a nice situation. I don’t know if that is fair.”
In addition to jail time, Donaghy is facing fines totaling half a million dollars and has agreed to cough up the $30,000 in ill-gotten gains.
All three men were released after posting a $250,000 bond.
Donaghy, a 13-year NBA veteran, resigned July 9 after news surfaced that he was at the center of an FBI probe. The betting scheme was uncovered during an investigation into the Gambino crime family in Brooklyn, but none of the defendants has mob ties.
His lawyer said yesterday a gambling addiction led to his involvement.
“He’s had a severe gambling problem for awhile that went untreated,” said lawyer John Lauro.
Donaghy, who lives in Florida, also told Judge Carol Bagley Amon he was taking drugs for depression and anxiety.
“He expresses a great deal of remorse and concern about the pain that he’s caused his family, his friends and his co-workers,” Lauro said.
It was unclear yesterday whether others are involved in the gambling scandal, but U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf said the investigation is continuing.
NBA commissioner David Stern said the league was still reviewing its officiating program.
Lamell McMorris, a spokesman for the National Basketball Referees Association, the union representing game officials, said: “We recognize that a cloud has descended upon all referees. But we are committed to showing the public that this was an isolated event and that NBA officiating is conducted at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and fairness.”
By Michael Kiefer, The Arizona Republic
PHOENIX — Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas on Wednesday sent letters to NBA Commissioner David Stern and to the head of the FBI in Washington, D.C., asking that his office be given all information about Tim Donaghy’s handling of the two Phoenix Suns playoff games.
Thomas wants to know whether Donaghy gambled on the games, provided inside information to gamblers or helped determine the outcome.
“Specifically it has been reported that Mr. Donaghy refereed playoff series games between the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Lakers on April 29, 2007, and the Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs on May 12, 2007,” Thomas wrote.
“If Mr. Donaghy purposely failed to officiate the games properly and his conduct resulted in changing the outcome of games, such conduct might have violated various Arizona criminal statutes and could be the subject of criminal prosecution.”
Thomas did not comment Wednesday, but Special Assistant County Attorney Barnett Lotstein said Arizona’s “long-arm statute” allows the county to prosecute. “If any element of the crime happened in our county, we have jurisdiction,” Lotstein said.
Among the possible felony charges are fraudulent schemes and artifices, which carries a possible prison term of three to 10 years; and bribery of participants in professional or amateur games, which carries a possible prison term of one to 3¾ years.
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