NBA
Bob Hunter commentary: Game-fixing conspiracy theories still just as stale
Friday, June 13, 2008 3:09 AM
By
Bob Hunter
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
There are people who would have you believe that just about everything in the modern sports world is fixed, including yesterday's Texas Rangers-Kansas City Royals baseball game. I'm serious.
We live in a suspicious society, often for good reasons, and some people naturally assume that Big Money is pulling the strings on most of the games we see.
This line of thinking isn't even new. Years ago, one of the local sportswriters was a notoriously lousy gambler, and whenever he'd lose a bet because the score was within a point or two of the spread, he just knew he was the victim of a backroom deal.
"The point spread was five and they won by six," he'd say. "You don't think something fishy is going on?"
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