21Jan

How the NCAA Match-Fixing Actually Worked…

Exclusive interviews with match-fixers to show how corruption linked to the international gambling market is an existential crisis to US sports. One of the alleged participants in the NCAA match-fixing ring. To begin with the obvious and necessary: people lie. They lie for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes they lie for profit, sometimes they lie because they like lying, and sometimes they lie because they are on the wrong side of an interrogation table...

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05Oct

The Raining Bodies of Atlantic City

The sad truth of the gambling capital of eastern America. It’s raining bodies in Atlantic City. You know the problem. You are walking along the Boardwalk and suddenly a body comes hurtling down. You need some kind of human-protecting umbrella for this odd phenomenon. No one knows...

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06Jun

Okay, So Where’s the Mob?

Jontay Porter the ex-NBA player and his gambling syndicate buddy arrested at JFK Airport. Threats, racketeering and "doing a special… or you beat me up." There has to be a mob connection somewhere in this story. That’s my take on the Brooklyn-based gambler, Long Phi “Bruce” Pham, being arrested by US authorities at JFK Airport in connection with the Jontay Porter scandal. To review. Porter was a good, third-string player in the best basketball league in the world. He made about $1 million...

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07Jun

Two Crises, One Continent

It was a bizarre accident that started the investigation. On a road in northern Italy a driver fell asleep. No big deal. Except the driver was a soccer player from the local team who could not stay awake, no matter how hard he tried. When the police tested him, they discovered he was not suffering from narcolepsy; but a gambler had drugged him and some of his team-mates to ensure that they played so badly they lost the game, and...

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