American sports – Declan Hill – Investigative Journalist & Academic

What Tim Donaghy’s Scandal Reveals About America

An exclusive interview with Tim Donaghy, the NBA referee who gambled with Mafia-connected bookmakers - Sports betting, NBA tanking, US Corruption It is the $64 million dollar question. The audience, mostly sleepy tennis executives and sales people on an early Sunday morning in the near-empty conference center, leaned forward, when I asked it to Tim Donaghy. Tim Donaghy, the former National Basketball Association (NBA) referee who had worked with gamblers connected with organized crime, and I were on stage together this weekend. ...

The Of Course World of Match-Fixing

Suspicious games, match-fixing and corruption from around the world. "Yeah, there's tons of big events which are being fixed.Especially now, lately the trend is very huge events in e-sports as well. Because there is no punition. You can just fix and not get punished." Interview with match-fixer, July 2024. The list is long and varied. It is compiled by Francesco Baranca - the brilliant, controversial and brilliantly controversial sports gambling monitor - and the team here at the University of New Haven....