I guess they're just really REALLY good friends

Seems our favorite "rogue" ref Tim Donaghy was burning up the phone lines of fellow referee Scott Foster around the same time as the infamous betting scandal. According to the above link, he called Foster 134 times between October 2006 and April 2007, apparently more often than even his own family.

"The only person Donaghy called more often (150 times) was Thomas Martino, to whom Donaghy has said he provided picks to win games and who was the middleman between the former ref and a bookie named James Battista."

But apparently it was all innocent chit-chat:

"The government has said that they have found no evidence of criminal conduct aside from that of Mr. Donaghy. Once again, the only criminal conduct is that of Mr. Donaghy."

I guess they're just really, super-duper, best buddies.

about 1 year ago TexSUN 5 comments 0 recs |

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Irresponsible reporting?

If this has gone through federal investigator’s hands and they found no wrongdoing, I’m not sure why Fox goes public with this except either

a) to stir up conspiracy theorists for the sake of web hits

b) because they want to implicate the government in the betting scandal as well.

It’s like anti-news.

Purchasing my Dragic jersey

by rosewood on Jul 15, 2008 9:51 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

And irresponsible blogging?

OK, maybe this post was best left unsaid. It has nothing to do with the Suns (directly), so probably didn’t belong on the front page. That said, I would assume that Fox (or whoever) went public with it because their reaction was similar to mine: "yeah, right". Besides, I was kind compared to EVT’s Scott Bordow:

http://bordowssportsblog.freedomblogging.com/2008/07/14/david-stern-has-some-explaining-to-do/

by TexSUN on Jul 15, 2008 1:18 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fine for blogging

Once this goes public, it’s a talking point, so we’ll inevitably discuss it.

I was more saying that Fox could have been a little less inflammatory in its coverage of this anti-news. But that’s a silly request in itself.

Purchasing my Dragic jersey

by rosewood on Jul 15, 2008 1:40 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'll wait...

to hear directly from the Feds before I believe any of this. Yet that many phone call, before and after games, during the period he admitted to betting on games is more than just suspicious. If anything the Feds may not have found Foster to be related to their case, in that he was not part of the bookie-Donaghy ring, but he may have been involved separately with just Donaghy alone. So in my completely uneducated opinion perhaps the Feds wont act on these records yet because Foster is not “directly” involved in the present investigation.

We’ll found out for sure during the sentencing once the FBI investigator steps forth to release his findings.

"Yeah I could have been king, but maybe I already am king. Hail to the king baby." Ash from Army of Darkness

by Turambar on Jul 15, 2008 11:07 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

just like bonds...

it’ll take the government 1000’s of years to get anything done…

if that number of phone calls being made, and to whom (another ref) is correct, to me it looks really bad. But, to be quite honest, the nba has lost a lot of its fun for me, i think for me, when marion started bitching and complaining (about stupid stuff), that’s when I started to slide on being as excited about the suns as I was for 2-3 years…sadly.

by be-the-ball on Jul 15, 2008 11:38 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs