NBA referee Tim Donaghy is at the center of an FBI organized-crime probe after he allegedly made bets on basketball games, some of which he was officiating, the Post has learned. Donaghy, a 13-year veteran of the NBA, resigned from the NBA two weeks ago. The investigation, ongoing for the past year, focused on allegations that Donaghy, 40, was making calls to affect the point spread so that he and mobster cronies could cash in on large bests. The bets involved thousands of dollars and occurred during the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seven seasons. Donaghy knows of the investigation, originally reported on by the Post, and is planning on turning himself into officials next week. Is anything sacred in sports anymore? Baseball bats "juiced up", athletes taking steroids and performance enhancing drugs, and referees with gambling problems falling under mob influences, and calling games to guarantee wins on bets totalling into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now you know why the Pete Rose situation has been handled in such a manner, and he will never, ever be back into major league baseball. This is the worst possible scenario for any organized sport. Click on the links to the New York Post, whose investigative reporters cracked this story wide open.
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