Channel 7′s Joe Amorosino Trying To Blow Up The NBA
WHDH - 7News sports director Joe Amorosino is reporting the following: A source tells 7Sports that the gambler at the center of the 2008 NBA betting scandal says 13 referees were involved. Jimmy “The Sheep” Battista pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transmit wagering information in connection with disgraced NBA official Tim Donaghy and served 15 months in federal prison. The source also tells 7Sports that Battista claims he has the phone records to prove his contact with these 13 referees. When the scandal broke in June of 2008, NBA commissioner David Stern called Donaghy a “rogue, isolated criminal.” The source tells 7Sports that Battista says he had a “Big-5″ of dependable referees with Tim Donaghy being the “King” as Battista called him, who the gambler says delivered a winning bet78 percent of the time in games he officiated. The 7Sports source says that on December 12, 2006, the night before the Celtics played the Philadelphia 76ers, Battista says he met with Donaghy and a mutual high school friend. On that night, the gambler claims they made a deal which according to Battista involved Donaghy supplying information including injury reports and referee assignments and Battista making the bets. The source says that according to Battista, the first game the two men bet on together was the Celtics-76ers game the following night — a game Donaghy officiated and one the Celtics covered with ease. The source says Battista is making these claims as he works to finalize a tell-all book deal.
Joe Amorosino broke this story? Really? You sly fucking dog! Listen I have no idea whether any of this is true. And to be honest I don’t really care. The NBA is impossible to bet on whether it’s rigged or not. So maybe Amorosino’s source is tellling the truth, maybe he thinks he is telling the truth or maybe he is just full of shit. It doesn’t matter. The point is that our little Joey Amorosino broke this first and it’s now national news. Good for him! It’s like he’s all growns up now! See Butch this is what you got to do to keep a job around here. Go find some degenerate gambler and get them to start squawking about Jimmy “The Sheep” Battista. That’s how you earn a pay check.
Joey, any chance you can get me a date with Anne Allred? How about a pair of Anne Allred’s panties? Anne Allred’s email address? One of her used tissues? ANYTHING!!!
Point is I enjoy Anne Allred’s style of journalism.
Aw come on, there’s no way organized crime dipped it’s mitts into the NBA. They would never do that. I’m sure they draw the line at drugs, prostitution & murder.
I’m with Captain on that one. Maybe a 3 some with her and the weather girl?
I kind of agree with Felger on this one. It should be the sports scandal of the decade, probably one of the biggest ever. Where’s the coverage?
Joe Amorosino works for WHDH, the station that is losing viewers hand over fist thanks to Jay Leno’s less-than-robust lead-in. I’d try a trick like this, too, if I was a sports hack on a losing team. The local TV news industry is never coming back, and ‘sports’ is not the place you want to be. It’s the first part of the ship beneath the waves when it sinks.
Joe Amorosino is a good sports reporter. Maybe ChrisNH should spend less time in mommy’s basement in hickville and wake up!
Amorosino has more integrity in his reporting than the entire state of New Hampshire. Oh by the way NH is the armpit of New England.
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