Entries from June 2008

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

NBA Referee Rigging Scandal Explodes

Explosive allegations by an ex-referee rocked the NBA today in the midst of an NBA championship series designed to reinvigorate the league. Tim Donaghy claimed that the NBA routinely encouraged refs to call bogus fouls to manipulate results as well as asking them to withhold technical fouls on marquis players to increase ratings. Quite [...]

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Libertarian V.P. Candidate a Sports Betting Patent Troll?

I consider myself a Libertarian, but I may be voting for Obama in 2008. A recent article on Techdirt reveals that the Vice Presidential candidate for the libertarian party is a patent troll who has made his fortune shaking down online sportsbooks based on a broad and questionable patent.
While there is a split in [...]