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For those just learning about “Gaming the Game: The Story Behind the NBA Betting Scandal and the Gambler Who Made It Happen”
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Sean Patrick Griffin
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Sean Patrick Griffin
@spgauthor
Professor of Criminal Justice at The Citadel, best-selling author (Gaming the Game; Black Brothers, Inc.), former Philadelphia Police officer.
Charleston, SC Katılım Nisan 2011
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@RealDealPodz “The NBA’s preferred version”? You understand Team Donaghy’s self-serving filings simply repeated existing conspiracy theories, right? And that the feds looked into them before mocking his cooperation? What specifically are you alleging Foster and the 2003-07 betting scandal?
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NEW PIECE: The Business of Rigging Sports.
Sports have always been rigged. So why the selective outrage? On Balogun, Messi, Negreira, Calciopoli, Manchester City's charges, PSG's conflicts of interest, Tim Donaghy, and those who turn a blind eye.
realdealpodz.substack.com/p/the-business…
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Latest Covid fraud in the news justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/f…
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If anyone is wondering why I left the American Society of Criminology @ASCRM41 (ASC) then look no further than this month’s “The Criminologist” magazine. It features two articles…
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Worth pointing for the bang-my-head-against-the-wallth time, that changes in the murder rate — drastic changes in either direction — have zero correlation with changes in poverty, systemic racism, lead gasoline or any other of the so called "root cause" of crime in Chicago.
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos
Thinking about Chicago's murder rate. Steady this year compared to 2025, but way down from 2021 and about the same as 2004, 2010, and 2011. The number in 2025 was the lowest in decades, but Chicago has been losing population, generally. Especially black people. (1/11)
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I look forward to a day when (1) crime - not murder - rates are compared to 2019 (pre-George Floyd) and especially to 2013/14 (at our recent low) and (2) the 2020 spike isn't assumed to be attibuted to Covid. Just maddening how persistent this framing is npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-…
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Update:
The combined total of alleged bets in the 2022-24 (Terry Rozier, Damon Jones, and Jontay Porter) and the 2023-24 (Malik Beasley and Ed Davis) NBA betting scandals is approx. $682,760
Sean Patrick Griffin@spgauthor
If looking strictly at the approximate volumes of known/alleged betting in NBA scandals: December 2022 - March 2024 (“Operation Nothing But Bet” - Porter, Rozier, Jones, and perhaps Billups): $608,594 October 2003 - April 2007 (“Operation Flagrant Foul” - Donaghy): $80,950,000
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Goodhart’s law is the idea that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
In science, and in academia more broadly, one often comes across what might be called Goodhart academics: ferociously ambitious, very smart people who have become extremely good at maximising the metrics used to evaluate academic success — publications, citations, grants, and so on — without ever producing any valuable work.
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@CataPaul2 Downplayed above: NBA referee Tim Donaghy fixed between 108 and 139 games from 2003 - 2007 and the bets among scandal participants totaled approx $81 million.
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Top 16 biggest sports scandals in history
Corruption, doping, betting, abuse, and match-fixing that shook global sport.
1. ⚽ FIFA Gate
Football | 2015
Bribery and corruption that shook world football.
2. 🇷🇺 Russian State Doping
Olympics | 2014–2016
Massive manipulation of anti-doping controls.
3. 🇺🇸 Larry Nassar Case
Gymnastics | 2016–2018
Systematic abuse and institutional failures.
4. 🚴♂️ Lance Armstrong
Cycling | 2012
Lost his titles after a historic doping case.
5. ⚾ Black Sox
Baseball | 1919
Players accused of selling the World Series.
6. 🇮🇹 Calciopoli
Football | 2006
Match-fixing by referees shook Italy.
7. 🇺🇸 Penn State / Jerry Sandusky
American Football | 2011–2012
Abuse and cover-up in university sport.
8. 🇺🇸 BALCO
Athletics & Baseball | 2003–2005
Network of banned substances implicated major stars.
9. ⚾ Houston Astros Sign-Stealing
Baseball | 2017–2020
Technology and tricks used to steal signs from opponents.
10. 🇨🇦 Ben Johnson
Athletics | 1988
Olympic gold ended in disqualification.
11. 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City 2002
Olympics | 1998–2002
Gifts and favors in the host city election.
12. 🇿🇦 Hansie Cronje
Cricket | 2000
Match-fixing scandal rocked world cricket.
13. ⚾ Pete Rose
Baseball | 1989
Banned for betting on the sport.
14. 🏀 Tim Donaghy
Basketball | 2007
Referee betting scandal sparked major controversy.
15. ⛸️ Tonya Harding / Nancy Kerrigan
Figure Skating | 1994
Off-ice attack turned into a global scandal.
16. 🇪🇸 Spain Paralympic Basketball
Paralympic Basketball | 2000
Gold medal tarnished by serious eligibility violations.
🖇️ Sources: FIFA, WADA, USADA, Olympics, MLB, NCAA, Reuters, Britannica, ESPN Cricinfo, U.S. Department of Justice.
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I will say the 1990s crime drop did make me cynical about sociology. I mean, what a thrilling time to be studying crime! The greatest crime drop ever! And it was largely ignored. I thought the field would self correct. Social "science" and all. Nope. New data changed few minds.
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Latest non-profit "community justice" agency in the news for crime.
"According to the nonprofit’s website, the organization is focused on making a difference in the lives of youth and keeping them away from a life of crime." actionnews5.com/2026/06/11/non…
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I repeat my call for someone to systematically track and research this recurring issue of "community justice"/"violence interruptor" crimes. In my experience these programs are ill-conceived and poorly managed with no accountability and no evidence supporting results.
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@ashleytrubin @Theory_Society I think non-academics would be surprised to see how open faculty in the social sciences and humanities are about things like censoring and discriminating, and especially about valuing "social justice" over academic freedom and pursuit of truth.
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New article in @Theory_Society on the line between appropriate and inappropriate political conduct in research. Who am I to set out such claims? No one special. I want to start a conversation, so if I'm wrong, let's talk about it! link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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I'm glad Kat wrote this, to document what happened. I was certainly cancel adjacent and had a very tough time getting Back from the Brink published. But I went through nothing like this. (I guess because policing was already considered beyond the pale.)
katrosenfield.substack.com/p/on-being-can…
Kat Rosenfield@katrosenfield
Anyway, here's the whole sordid and very stupid story, which should hopefully be at least somewhat more fun to read about than it was to live through katrosenfield.substack.com/p/on-being-can…
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When I was, uh, "between publishers" in 2023, I was told by the acquisitions editor of a major trade house that in the that current woke #BLM culture, they simply would not touch a book about policing. It was not personal, she said, but the whole field had been cancelled.
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@viahalfspace @SebC__ The “Untold” episode on the 03-07 NBA betting scandal is a fact-challenged *purposeful* manipulation of documented history based on discredited pathological liar Tim Donaghy’s long ago debunked false narrative. If interested this thread helps explain:
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Sean Patrick Griffin@spgauthor
As I’ve entertained media inquiries about the @netflix “Untold” episode on the @nba betting scandal involving fmr referee Tim Donaghy, one topic which keeps being raised is the 12/06 mtg b/w Donaghy and his co-conspirators, his bf Tommy Martino and TM's pal Jimmy Battista. 1/X
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