NCAA: Former ASU guard BJ Freeman tipped others on how to bet on himself

Need to rein in sports betting, or sports will be ruined

This ain’t good. These cases are like spotting a cockroach in the kitchen… For every BJ Freeman-type betting case we see… How many are we NOT seeing? Staying just out of sight?

Newsflash: It is a total given that both the NBA and College Basketball are totally rigged, and that both games are heavily controlled by Organized Crime/ Gamblers

Tom Donaghy's Personal Foul (2009) detailed how he helped Organized Crime/ Gamblers make billions on NBA Games, how Organized Crime/ Gamblers were involved in the NBA, how their were numerous offenders, how the Feds rather than prosecuting those offenders, helped the NBA totally cover it all up. ASU's Stevin Smith wrote a book about how easy it was to rig games, how he made a ton of money for Organized Crime/ Gamblers and how deeply involved those same Organized Crime/ Gambling forces were involved in College Basketball. He was convicted of rigging games for Organized Crime/ Gamblers after he got out of prison in 1988 (The True Story of the man Called Hedake). In his book Hedake talked extensively about how easily it was for him to cheat, because he was a point guard who constantly had the ball in his hands. The Paperback version of that book was released on Amazon this August.

Personally I've seen things in College Basketball that only reinforce my belief that all of basketball is rigged. That belief was cemented when I witnessed an outrageous event while attending the 1999 Western Regional Final in Phoenix, where UConn basically stole the game with the help of the Zebras and CBS TV on their way to the Title. That memory is so vivid, that 26 years later, I can close my eyes and still visualize the entire event.

I was lucky and got great seats for the game for me and a friend. We were within 30 feet of the baseline, surrounded by a ton of Gonzaga fans. We were both huge College Basketball fans, who had seen a ton of games. When the Game started, UConn had no answer for Richie Frahm. Gonzaga had come into the game on a hot streak and it looked to my friend and I that Gonzaga was going to roll. The play in question began when Frahm then ran the baseline and was on his way to getting a wide open look from the other corner where he was burying it. As Frahm crossed under the basket, UConn Big Man/ Enforcer, Kevin Freeman stepped close enough to clothesline Frahm with a forearm across his chest. That blow was so violent it emulated plays I'd been involved in College, where a wide receiver traveling at top speed was completely decleated and left in a heap on the ground. In college, that play could get the offender kicked out of the game. In a similar vein, Frahm's feet completely left the ground and his body almost went completely horizontal along the line of Freeman's arm, then crashed hard to ground. There was an official within 5 feet of play who had a perfect look who had the whistle in his mouth, but never blew it. As soon as he hit the ground, Frahm's eyes found that official's eyes and immediately he started begging for the obvious call, which should have resulted in Freeman being kicked out, not only for this game, but for the rest of the Tournament. The highlight should have led Sports Center, been No. 1 on their plays of the day, but instead, that official, still in direct eye contact with Frahm, just shrugged his shoulders, essentially saying there was "nothing he could do." On the far sideline, Gonzaga Head Coach Dan Monson understandably went ballistic. Several of his players/ coaches had to restrain him from going after the Zebras. What was striking was how none of the Zebras came over to offer an explanation, but instead were actively avoiding all things Gonzaga. The entire Gonzaga rooting Section joined the outraged mob. In all my years watching basketball, it is still the dirtiest play I've ever seen. When my friend and I went home, we played the Game Tape and discovered that the entire incident was edited out, and never covered. Instead they cut to an extended commercial. There was no coverage of Freeman's forearm, Monson going nuts or the Gonzaga fans going nuts, and no mention of the event by the team announcing the game. To me, that confirmed that the game was rigged, Organized Crime/ Gamblers were involved.

Since then I've seen hundreds of similar events where the Zebras seemed to have their finger on the scale and the Networks were right there to cover up for them. Of all sports, Hedacke and Tom Donaghy both wrote extensively about how easily it was to cheat in basketball.

Of all sports, going away, basketball, both college and pro, is the sport that's the most rigged.

Coach did the right thing by dimissing him from the team and before all of this garbage on betting came out from this kid.