OT: NBA stars/ coach arrested with Mafia gambling scheme

[ramfandan]

Non-related to baseball but breaking sports news on TV .

https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/us-news/n ... -arrested/

Coach Chauncey Billups and player Terry Rozier two of those arrested

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Who would have thought that totally intertwining sports and gambling and sports networks would result in something like this?

[ramfandan]

Non-related to baseball but breaking sports news on TV .

https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/us-news/n ... -arrested/

Coach Chauncey Billups and player Terry Rozier two of those arrested

The scheme involved rigged shuffling machines as well as X-ray tables able to detect face down cards on a table .

[scoutyjones2]

Can you give us the latest on Messi?

Keep this [shirt] to another forum.

[ramfandan]

The four crime families involved were the Bonanno , Gambino, Lucchese, and Genovese .
Over 31 have been invited as NBA players were used to lure the gamblers to the underground poker games. Money derived , according to the report, was laundered by converting it to crypto currency so tougher to trace.

[ScotchMIrish]

MLB needs to institute 100% electronic strike zone not the proposed 2 challenges per game for exactly this reason. Easiest sport to rig is MLB because the home plate umpire can fix the strike zone.

The excuse I saw was they didn't want to completely remove the "human element" from the game.

[dugoutrex]

How 'bout them RAMS!

[Bomber1]

Who would have thought that totally intertwining sports and gambling and sports networks would result in something like this?

Shocking!!

[ramfandan]

MLB needs to institute 100% electronic strike zone not the proposed 2 challenges per game for exactly this reason. Easiest sport to rig is MLB because the home plate umpire can fix the strike zone.

The excuse I saw was they didn't want to completely remove the "human element" from the game.

Other pro sports pretty easy too if they wish to be crooked . On a long pass play the umpire can throw a flag for Off. Holding and negate the chance on a TD throw... they say 'holding can be called on nearly every NFL play '
In basketball the difference between a blocking call and charging foul is pretty subjective too.
The refs in WWE wrestling are the most trustworthy as the match is predetermined . So they just are in the ring to give time cues to the wrestlersas to when the match should be ended.

[ScotchMIrish]

Can you give us the latest on Messi?

Keep this [shirt] to another forum.

It's relevant to baseball because of the strike zone.

[ScotchMIrish]

Who would have thought that totally intertwining sports and gambling and sports networks would result in something like this?

Last I checked DeWitt was all in favor of gambling in baseball.

Why exactly was Pete Rose banned? If he was a MLB owner he would have been perfectly fine.

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Last I checked DeWitt was all in favor of gambling in baseball.

Why exactly was Pete Rose banned? If he was a MLB owner he would have been perfectly fine.

Okay??

[Dazepster]

Who would have thought that totally intertwining sports and gambling and sports networks would result in something like this?

Spot On!!!

[Dazepster]

MLB needs to institute 100% electronic strike zone not the proposed 2 challenges per game for exactly this reason. Easiest sport to rig is MLB because the home plate umpire can fix the strike zone.

The excuse I saw was they didn't want to completely remove the "human element" from the game.

Other pro sports pretty easy too if they wish to be crooked . On a long pass play the umpire can throw a flag for Off. Holding and negate the chance on a TD throw... they say 'holding can be called on nearly every NFL play '
In basketball the difference between a blocking call and charging foul is pretty subjective too.
The refs in WWE wrestling are the most trustworthy as the match is predetermined . So they just are in the ring to give time cues to the wrestlersas to when the match should be ended.

Agree on all points.

[Lloyd Braun]

MLB needs to institute 100% electronic strike zone not the proposed 2 challenges per game for exactly this reason. Easiest sport to rig is MLB because the home plate umpire can fix the strike zone.

The excuse I saw was they didn't want to completely remove the "human element" from the game.

I hear ya, but isn't it safer in the hands of 1 human behind the plate? If there is egregious fraud it would be easier to find, trace, punish, etc.

But a 100% electronic strikezone means the calls are actually coming from anonymous people behind a curtain that never have to publicly answer to anyone, and can commit and hide fraud easier than a manual umpire.

[dugoutrex]

Who would have thought that totally intertwining sports and gambling and sports networks would result in something like this?

Last I checked DeWitt was all in favor of gambling in baseball.

Why exactly was Pete Rose banned? If he was a MLB owner he would have been perfectly fine.

why? because he was a piece of trash