Random House’s Triumph Books imprint cancelled published for former NBA referee Tim Donaghy’s tell-all book BLOWING THE WHISTLE: The Culture of Fraud in the NBA, scheduled for November publication. Promotional copy indicated that Donaghy “was at the center of a mafia-run gambling scheme wherein he used his on-court authority to manipulate the score or even the outcome of games, including play-off contests.” He pled guilty to Federal charges and “in this confessional memoir, Donaghy details how he became involved with the mob, specifies his methods for controlling the score of a game, and claims that league officials routinely use deceitful […]
