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 [...]

I found this interesting post by the author of the best-selling book Freakonomics. In it he discusses a recent editorial in the New York Times by noted economist Justin Wolfers in which he seems to suggest that one way to combat the problem of corrupt sports officials is to legalize sports gambling.
It seems that [...]