Shady NBA Ref Tim Donaghy’s 60 Minutes Interview

Anyone who has ever played sports knows that for the most part, refs are full of shit. Society attempts to act like people such as refs, judges and probation officers are of the highest character, and that they don’t have any biases. All we have to say to that is negro please. Case in point, former NBA ref Tim Donaghy, who served time for betting on games based on insider information that he received through the zebra’s inner circle. Even though the Donaghy situation has given the League a black eye, that continues to linger like cigarette smoke, it has done some positive in revealing that the National Basketball Association is essentially just a few notches above the WWE.

Donaghy has been telling anybody who will listen for a while now that most NBA refs are shadier than WC, and in case you didn’t know, Willie Calhoun is the shadiest one. Even though he bet on games that he actually officiated, Donaghy maintains that he didn’t fix those games. He also could beyond-accurately predict the outcome of games he wasn’t working, based on who was officiating and what players that said officials had biases towards. The FBI claims that Donaghy had about a 75% success rate, which by most accounts is unfathomable.

Donaghy’s revelation really isn’t that big of a shock, it’s only natural that a ref would be salty or hold a grudge with certain players, based on the extreme amount of verbal abuse that they experience on any given night. We can pretend like they are robots, but the reality is that they are similar to a sensitive thug and dealing with so much verbal abuse on a near daily basis during the season definitely impairs their ability to call a clean game.

Shady Call Leads To LSU Loss

Down 21-15 with under 6 minutes remaining in the 4th quarter, LSU’s defense was looking for a game-changing play to keep their hopes alive. That play came on a 2nd & 7, when ‘Bama quarterback Greg McElroy ran a bootleg to the right and tried to hit wide receiver Julio Jones near the sideline. LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson made a great play on the ball and intercepted it, just barely getting his foot inbounds. Only problem is that the refs didn’t see it the same way and ruled it an incomplete pass, basically sharting all over the Tigers’ comeback hopes as ‘Bama held on for the win.

Both officials who were near the play could not determine for sure that Peterson was inbounds and instead of erring on the side of the trailing and lower-ranked LSU, chose to roll with the higher-ranked home team in undefeated Alabama. After further review it was pretty obvious that Peterson had actually made the interception but the play was so close to call, that the replay officials felt like there was not enough visual evidence to overturn the ruling on the field. And the rest is history as ‘Bama went on to get the victory SEC West title, which sets up a meeting with Florida in teh SEC Championship game.

This was yet another example of the shady dealings of SEC officials. Several refs have already been reprimanded by the league for making questionable calls in games earlier this season. This was yet another example of Conference front-running, cause of the fact that Alabama is ranked #3 in the BCS and besides Florida, has the best opportunity to make a natty run. If the situation was reversed and ‘Bama was the lower-ranked team, guaranteed the refs would have saw it the other way. Everyone knows that College football is big business and the check difference between a BCS Bowl and a Turd Bowl is major.

Real Refs Ready To Blow The Whistle

To all the replacement refs, that have been gallivanting around the League this preseason, ruining games with excessive whistle-blowing and desperate attempts to follow the rules in a squarish manner, we have 4 words for you…Welp! See you later!

Word is the Ref’s union came to terms on a new contract with the NBA and said contract should be signed within the next week. I ain’t gonna lie, I kinda missed Violet Palmer and Dick Bavetta trying to steal some shine.

Agent Zero Is Back And Other NBA Random ‘Ish…

Glibert Arenas: So we tell you yesterday in our NBA random ‘ish segment that we were going to tell you about Gilbert Arenas coming back and they want to go ad do an entire segment on him today, go figure. But just in case you haven’t heard…it sounds as though our knig has that ‘06 28 points per game swag back.

You know the Gilbert that was busting peoples asses for game and celebrating as soon as he let it go. The Arenas that was an All-Star and a nut hair away from making the Olympic Team. Yeah that dude. But as we always tell you don’t just take our words for it, check out these videos of him working out this summer….he nice!

Watch Kobe and Carmelo Play 1-on-1: Call us a Kobe hater if you want, but we say Carmelo is about to give him buckets. And if you were thinking they were going one-on-one on the court you were half right. The two will be playing NBA 2K10 online tomorrow and anybody who wants can watch and talk sh*t to Kobe and/or Carmelo as they play via a webcast…all you got to do is SIGN UP RIGHT HERE.

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They’ll Be No NBA Lockout…Only Replacement Refs

We’ve been telling you that there might be an NBA Lockout because of the refs, but we were wrong. Even though there are only 22 days until the League’s first exhibition game on October 1st and no contract in place between the NBA and it’s refs, the rumor is the League will just get replacement refs instead of locking out.

The problem: The NBA is saying that they have to cut back the refs budget by $3.2 mill because of the recession. The refs only want to give up $2.5 mill. An offer that was such a slap in the face… that David Stern walked out of the last negotiation.

And the triv part is that there isn’t another meeting between the two parties scheduled. But it looks like Stern is going to stand firm on his offer to the refs and it’s going to be up to them to decide if they’re going to play ball or hold out like Crabtree.

We don’t know how we feel about replacement refs. I mean everyone’s seen the movie… The Replacements (f)ucked up all year before getting it right at the end.