Donaghy’s Friend Snitches, Yet to Receive Stitches

Remember Tim Donaghy? Of course you do, he’s the creep who admitted to fixing and betting on NBA games. C’mon, you know who he is. This chump:

donaghy open mouth

(Donaghy prepares for prison)

With all the Sonics moving, playoff starting, and award awarding going on, this newest news might have slipped through the cracks. One of Donaghy’s friends, Thomas Martino, has “admitted to paying Donaghy in exchange for betting tips on N.B.A. games, including those that Donaghy officiated.” Not good, Tim.

Martino, who has known Donaghy since high school, faces 12 to 18 months in the clink and will be sentenced July 11th. He has stated that Donaghy would relay crucial information such as injuries, player-official relations, and referee crews in a “coded language.”

Fortunately for you, beautiful reader, SPORTS BY BROOKS has attained a transcript of some of this coded information:

Donaghy: If I were you, I wouldn’t not make a wager on the team that doesn’t have an uninjured big guy who may or may not have a name that might happen to rhyme with Shmim Shmuncan. You know he doesn’t really get along too well with these guys who might be working, that are definitely not named Joey Crawford and Bennett Salvatore. But you didn’t hear it from me.

It’s hard to imagine that he would get caught with a code so unbreakable.

One comment

  1. Gravatarjerryshortbuss
    2:58 pm on April 19th, 2008

    I heard of refs swallowing their whistles late in the game, but this is ridiculous.

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