@Chin Diesel had an interesting
post about former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who got caught fixing games. Donaghy allegedly
said that there are many more bad apples in the refereeing barrel.
A key quote from the ESPN article, from economist Wladimir Andreff of the University of Paris: "All economic analyses conclude that the more money there is inflowing to sport, the greater the sport corruption."
Readers may also be interested in a
post by
@nwhoopfan about “Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul,” a Netflix expose about the Tim Donaghy fiasco.
We don’t know if there are tainted officials in the college referee ranks. All we can say for certain is that there are large sums of money being bet on games, and that there are some atrocious referee calls that are sometimes being made. The majority of the bad calls in WBB games are likely due to referee incompetence, but we cannot rule out the possibility that more sinister forces are involved.