11-02-2007, 12:44 PM
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ESPN - Former Colombo Mobster: Some Games are Fixed - TrueHoop Quote: |
After spending seven years in prison, Franseze now spends his days talking about his re-birth as a Christian, promoting his book, and talking to athletes about the dangers of gambling.
| Quote: What about pro sports - how much fixing goes on there?
There's not as much, unless you got a friend who's a pro, who'll do you a favor. Where pros get in trouble is they're not smart. They get to Vegas, get beat, hang with the wrong company, maybe you get them in a compromising position.
Franseze goes on to say that getting a referee is ideal -- and the more fouls they call the better.
He also says that of the team sports, basketball is the easiest to fix, because one player is a fifth of the team (instead of a ninth in baseball, or an eleventh in football). That means you can get to one star player and influence the entire game. In baseball, you could theoretically get to a pitcher, but underperforming pitchers tend to get yanked by managers. In basketball, though, the best players get to keep playing no matter how poorly they perform.
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