OT: Donaghy Book coming out, Will be on 60 Minutes

Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
DaRizzle

DaRizzle

BLAKER
Joined
Sep 16, 2008
Messages
9,631
Likes
104
Points
48
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.

Donaghy's also about to embark on what sounds like a media barnstorming tour. The press release:

Tim Donaghy's memoir on his life as a former NBA referee and his basketball gambling has undergone a title change and a new publisher with the VTi-Group, a traditional and online media company based in Tampa Bay.

The book, now titled "Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal That Rocked the NBA" is set to be pre-released to select outlets on Friday, December 4th and will be available in book stores nationwide for Christmas.

Tim Donaghy was interviewed by 60 Minutes for an episode that will air this Sunday the 6th. The interview and the book will finally answer many of the questions about his gambling, the NBA games that were affected and the involvement with the New York Mafia.

I don't know much about VTi-Group, other than that its CEO is Shawna Vercher, a Huffington Post contributor who says she's worked with President Obama, Jeb Bush, the Department of Homeland Security and the NFL. (Elsewhere, she's described VTi as "a web media company that that focuses on viral publicity and social media strategy.") I do know this: Pretty soon, David Stern will have to get in front of a camera and patronize us all over again.
Click to expand...


http://deadspin.com/5415679/tim-donaghy-has-found-a-publisher
 
Oh how I long for the day of David Stern's fall. His arrogance is off the charts and it will be his undoing.
 
elcap15 said:
I thought it was illegal to profit off a crime
Click to expand...

Kinda like OJ's attempt on his "If I Did It" book

button.ojbook.jpg
 
elcap15 said:
I thought it was illegal to profit off a crime
Click to expand...

Well Stern's been doing it for years...so it's either legal or simply OK for the uber rich. Not sure how Donaghy is working it, but I wouldn't bet against him. ;)
 
Yea I actually want to as well. I want to find out what he says is going on, the onlyl problem though is he is dishonest, and might be lying again just to make money off of folks like you and I. Maybe I'll wait for it to come to the library.
 
hasoos said:
Yea I actually want to as well. I want to find out what he says is going on, the onlyl problem though is he is dishonest, and might be lying again just to make money off of folks like you and I. Maybe I'll wait for it to come to the library.
Click to expand...

I think that's why I'm more interested in seeing him in the 60 Minutes interview. Anybody can make up some crap and throw it into a book *cough*Sarah Pailin*cough*.

If you are willing to go and get the 60 Minutes Grilling, you can come out the other end looking like an idiot, an asshole, or a somewhat crooked guy trying to expose a massively corrupt organization (and make some coin off books in the process).

That he's even willing to go on the show gives him a lot of credibility in my eyes. Hell, if I were donating both kidneys, my liver, my life savings and my NBA League Pass to orphans, I'd still feel pretty nervous going on that show.
 
I just think it will be poorly written and after the confirmation about the fixing of the L*ker playoff games, I don't think I really care all that much anymore.
 
I don't think it will tell me anything I don't already believe.

I am pretty sure NBA refs shave points to cover spreads.

I am absolutely sure there is a star system in the NBA.

I am absolutely sure that the NBA is WAY too dependant on honest officiating. Basketball refs have a tremendous amount of influence on the game.

I felt this way before Donaghy and I will feel that way until some real changes are made to way NBA officials are trained.
 
image5881438g.jpg


Interview on 60 minutes for those interested

Part I


Part II


Of course, includes a little bit about the refs giving Kobe some calls but who didn't know that?
 
I found the interview a lot less interesting than I expected to.

He didn't do much to dispel the notion that he was a lone "rogue" official.
 
Wow... this interview is very different from the quotes from the book we have seen... and right off it seems they make a point of him to say that he is the only ref that was betting on NBA games that is aware of.
 
Part 2 was more interesting... about how mob threatend his family if he didn't give them the picks.
 
I tivod it. Getting ready to watch it now. I also would like to get the book. There are two refs that I think may be betting by the calls they make. I am talking both teams. Scott Foster and Monte McCutchion.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)
Back
Top