Deadspin: Tim Donaghy

Tim Donaghy On Game 6: Wandering Eyes

Tim Donaghy — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:30:00 EDT

As he did for us last year, Tim Donaghy, a contributing writer for The Sports Connection (www.DannyB.info) and a former NBA referee who spent 11 months in prison for relaying inside information to gamblers, will review the performance of his former colleagues during the NBA Finals. Here's a quarter-by-quarter break down of Game 6, with accompanying video. More »

Tim Donaghy On Game 5: Earning The Offensive Foul

Tim Donaghy — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EDT

Tim Donaghy On Game 4: Let's Marvel At Chris Bosh's Restless Pivot Foot

Tim Donaghy — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:05:00 EDT

Tim Donaghy On Game 3: How Refs Read The Players

Tim Donaghy — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:47:34 EDT

Tim Donaghy On Game 2: The Trouble With Subjectivity

Tim Donaghy — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:21:09 EDT

Tim Donaghy On Game 1: How The Refs Set The Tone Of A Game

Tim Donaghy — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:35:15 EDT

As he did for us last year, Tim Donaghy, a contributing writer for The Sports Connection and a former NBA referee who spent 11 months in prison for relaying inside information to gamblers, will review the performance of his former colleagues during the NBA Finals. Here's a quarter-by-quarter break down of Game 1, with accompanying video. More »

Tim Donaghy Has A Theory On Danny Crawford And The Mavericks

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:30:33 EDT

Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: what Donaghy thinks of the refereeing so far in these playoffs. Cubes won't like this one. More »

Tim Donaghy On Game 7: How The League Influences A Series

Tim Donaghy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:05:33 EDT

Tim Donaghy, the former NBA referee who spent 11 months in prison for relaying inside information to gamblers, is reviewing the performance of his former colleagues during the NBA Finals. Here's a quarter-by-quarter breakdown of Game 7, with video. More »

Tim Donaghy On Game 6: The Refs Get A Night Off

Tim Donaghy — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:00:25 EDT

Tim Donaghy On Game 5: Why Make-Up Calls Are Necessary

Tim Donaghy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:45:52 EDT

Tim Donaghy On Game 4: Just What The League Needed

Tim Donaghy — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:10:49 EDT

Tim Donaghy On Game 3: Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Worse ...

Tim Donaghy — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:45:12 EDT

Tim Donaghy On The Refs In Game 2: What Star Treatment?

Tim Donaghy — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:30:38 EDT

Watching The Watchmen: Tim Donaghy Breaks Down The Officiating In Game 1

Tim Donaghy — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:25:58 EDT

Tim Donaghy, the former NBA referee who spent 11 months in prison for relaying inside information to gamblers, will review the performance of his former colleagues during the NBA Finals. Here's a quarter-by-quarter breakdown of Game 1, with accompanying video. More »

Tim Donaghy's Bad Beat Of The Week: An Ice-Bucket Night In Miami

Tim Donaghy (as told to Tommy Craggs) — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:35:54 EDT

A weekly feature in which Tim Donaghy, the former NBA referee who spent 11 months in prison for relaying inside information to gamblers, tells us a sad gambling story. The standard caveats apply. More »

The Analysis The NBA Wants You To Read

Tommy Craggs — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:00:09 EST

The TrueHoopheads have gone through Tim Donaghy's book and done the yeoman's work of checking some of his claims against box scores, play-by-plays and betting lines. They've found a few implausibilities. Go read. [TrueHoop, also] More »

David Stern's Nightmare Is Now Available For Purchase

Tommy Craggs — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:30:36 EST

Tim Donaghy's book, Personal Foul, is out and can be bought here. The New York Times and the Philadelphia Daily News weigh in. We'll have more on this soon, and I'd wager the NBA will, too. [CreateSpace] More »

Tim Donaghy Has Found A Publisher

Tommy Craggs — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:55:15 EST

The former NBA referee's memoir, quashed by Random House under pressure from the NBA, has found a home with VTi-Group, a media company based in Tampa. The book is now called Personal Foul and will be out by Christmas. More »

Tim Donaghy's Gambling Buddy Would Like To Imply A Few Things

Dashiell Bennett — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:15:57 EST

Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports" caught up with Jimmy Battista, the recovering drug/gambling addict who bankrolled Tim Donaghy's awesome NBA bets and went to jail for it. He now has a few sinister insinuations he'd like to get off his chest. More »

Study: College Basketball Refs Suck, Too

Tommy Craggs — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:15:52 EST

A couple of professors watched a bunch of college basketball games and came to the very reasonable conclusion, in a peer-reviewed academic journal, that they were all being reffed by Dick Bavetta. More »

October: Fin.

Tommy Craggs — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:20:12 EDT

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We produce a lot of posts every month. Most of them disappear quickly. Some of them don't. Here are the 10 most popular posts from October, ranked low to high. More »

NBA Will Review Allegations In Donaghy Book It Sought To Quash

Tommy Craggs — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EDT

The NBA says Lawrence B. Pedowitz, the guy who investigated the league's officiating program last time around, will look into the allegations we documented yesterday from Tim Donaghy's Blowing the Whistle. The NBA: Where Donaghy continues to happen. [CBSSports] More »

Excerpts From The Book The NBA Doesn't Want You To Read

Tommy Craggs — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:30:15 EDT

As promised earlier, here are a handful of excerpts from David Stern's favorite book, Blowing the Whistle, by Tim Donaghy. More »

The Book The NBA Doesn't Want You To Read

Tommy Craggs — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:30:36 EDT

We've obtained a copy of Tim Donaghy's book, Blowing the Whistle, which purports to expose the NBA's "culture of fraud" and which Random House was set to publish next month — until, a source says, the league threatened to sue. More »

Deadspin National Poll Of The Week: Who Should Replace NBA Refs?

Nash Landesman — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:20:25 EDT

With the NBA referee lockout a foregone conclusion, we asked millions of Americans who they thought would make the best replacement referees for the upcoming 2009-2010 NBA season. Here are the results. [Source: Gallup] More »

Upon Further Review, Tim Donaghy Back In Jail

Dashiell Bennett — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:30:16 EDT

The disgraced NBA referee was living in a half-way house while awaiting release on his conspiracy conviction, but has been ordered back to prison because of a unspecified parole violation. The whole thing sounds fixed to me. [AP] More »

Tim Donaghy Has Not Been Enjoying Prison (UPDATED)

Dashiell Bennett — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Disgraced referee Tim Donaghy will be released from prison next week and not a moment too soon. A press release says that while in the slammer he nearly had his legs broken by a New York mobster. (Update below.) More »

Economists Confirm That NBA Referees Are Biased

Ben Cohen — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:45:00 EDT

An academic study concludes that NBA zebras "tend to favor home teams, teams trailing in a game and teams trailing in a playoff series." Also, the team getting 10 points when Tim Donaghy is involved. [Oregonian] More »

Tim Donaghy Gets 15 Months in Jail

Clay Travis — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:15:48 EDT

Which was roughly in the middle of the 33 month sentence he could have received from Judge Carol Bagley Amon. Even still Donaghy's time in prison is longer than most legal experts anticipated he would receive given his cooperation with federal authorities. Generally courts are more lenient in situations such as Donaghy's when his cooperation helped to lead to the sentencing of co-conspirators. Of course legal experts are generally lawyers who don't want to practice law anymore so take whatever they say with a healthy dose of skepticism. More »

Big Money Undefeated in 7 of 7 NBA Games Reffed by Scott Foster

Clay Travis — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:30:44 EDT

You'll recall that Foster was the referee who received more than 134 phone calls from Tim Donaghy. Now, R.J. Bell, a sports betting expert, has examined the lines in the games surrounding those telephone calls. He found that when the line moved two points or more (described as a significant line move in NBA games), the money moving that line was 7 for 7. More »

Doug Christie Is Full Of Aggrievement

Will Leitch — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:00:03 EDT

Wait, people still pay attention to Doug Christie? Really? The man still has some sort of forum, and humans react to his words? Crazy. More »

Tim Donaghy's Sense Of The Dramatic

Will Leitch — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:00:52 EDT

From the minute the general public learned the name Tim Donaghy, everyone has been waiting for a day like yesterday. The point of Tim Donaghy's infamy is not his gambling; it's all about whether or not he could provide any insight into the back rooms of an NBA that has always seemed a little shady. You have to give Donaghy credit for one thing: The man knows timing. More »

Some new public filings in the Tim Donaghy...

Will Leitch — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Some new public filings in the Tim Donaghy case. The only time you've ever cared about a Wizards-Grizzlies game. [The Smoking Gun] More »

Tim Donaghy Stayed Busy

KOGOD — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:30:10 EDT

Details of Tim Donaghy's exploits as a crooked NBA referee are beginning to emerge from the governments investigation, and the NBA must be thrilled. The New York Daily News is reporting that Donaghy influenced upwards of 100 games during his career. More »

Donaghy's Official Guilty Plea, And His Pay Scale

Leitch — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:56:22 EDT

Disgraced — as much as any NBA ref can be more disgraced than they already are — NBA ref Tim Donaghy has officially pleaded guilty to the charges against him. The Smoking Gun has the official document. More »

One Guy, Pleading Guilty, Blah Blah

Leitch — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:40:51 EDT

If you're all excited — or even, say, a-twitter — about Tim Donaghy's impending guilty plea in federal court today to those whole charges of game fixing, well, settle down there, Paco. More »

David Stern's First Round Of Damage Control

Leitch — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:05:26 EDT

So, as we look back on David Stern's fascinating press conference earlier today, we have a few thoughts. More »

David Stern Press Conference, Going On Now

Leitch — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:02:55 EDT

Right now, NBA commissioner David Stern is addressing, for the first time, the whole Tim Donaghy situation. We are curious to see if he can avoid picking up the lectern and throwing it across the room. More »

The NBA, Point Fixing, And You

rickchand — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:40:08 EDT

In lieu of David Stern's big live press conference in about 20 minutes, bloggers weigh in on the Tim Donaghy officiating investigation ... including Mark Cuban!: More »

This Donaghy Situation Is Not Likely To Improve

Leitch — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:40:55 EDT

So here's that video The Sports Feller was talking about in his excellent Tim Donaghy column this weekend, the compilation of rather insane calls in Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals between the Spurs and Suns, reffed by one Tim Donaghy. The point is not necessarily that the video shows definitively that Donaghy was shaving points; the point is that we, suddenly, terrifyingly, have no idea. More »