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Vegas Bookie: A-Rod Bet on Baseball?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Deeper_Background, May 11, 2009.

  1. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    That's the million-dollar question.
     
  2. spnited

    spnited Active Member



    From 2005 you dumb bastard.
     
  3. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Oh, so now he's a deadbeat gambler too?

    ::)
     
  4. Deeper_Background

    Deeper_Background Active Member

    It took a couple of years unofficial suspension from NBA boss David Stern and a trip to the minors to play baseball for Mike to wisen up
     
  5. spnited

    spnited Active Member


    You're a moron. Go back under the rock where you've been for the past six minths.
     
  6. Deeper_Background

    Deeper_Background Active Member

    Jordan announced his retirement three days before the NBA concluded an investigation into his wagering and found no violation of league rules. That’s certainly convenient.

    He also made a weird comment, saying, “If the urge comes back, if the Bulls will have me, if David Stern lets me ... I may come back.”

    There was definitely reason to be concerned. A businessman named Richard Esquinas claimed Jordan lost $1.3 million to him in golf bets during a 10-day period in 1991. He had cancelled cheques as proof. In 1992, during a police investigation into the death of a man named Eddie Dow, three cheques from the superstar totalling $108,000 were found – more gambling losses.

    The most damaging came when Jordan was forced to admit under oath that he’d lost $57,000 to a man named Slim Bouler, who was on trial on drug and money-laundering charges. Initially, Jordan claimed that money was a loan.
    This is the kind of slippery slope referee Tim Donaghy couldn’t overcome.
    http://www.cbc.ca/sports/sportsblog/2007/07/busting_the_jordan_gambling_my.html
     
  7. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    You're a moron. Go back under the rock where you've been for the past six months.
     
  8. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    WTF does that Jordan conspiracy theory have to do with this idiotic BS about A-Rod allegedly betting millions with some alleged bookie in Vegas?

    Did the NBA also fix the draft lottery for Ewing to go to NYC, so therefore A-Rod is worse than Rose? Did the Orioles intentionally cancel a game after Ripken caught his wife in bed with Kevin Costner, so therefore A-Rod is a deadbeat gambler?

    Tebow, d_b, go back to stroking it while looking at photos of underage actresses.
     
  9. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    Less six days
     
  10. spnited

    spnited Active Member


    Not nearly long enough
     
  11. Deeper_Background

    Deeper_Background Active Member

    From the Washington Post:


    Quote:
    Actor-director Kevin Costner made the unusual move of calling the Fox Sports Radio duo of Kevin Kiley and Chuck Booms (fired from WTEM in 1998) last week to deny rumors of an affair with Kelly Ripken, wife of Baltimore Orioles third baseman Cal Ripken.

    When Ripken announced his retirement early last week, the Internet gossip mill churned into action, recalling the rumor of an August 1997 affair between his wife and Costner, who has starred in baseball movies such as "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham." When Costner was told that Kiley and Booms were rehashing the rumor on-air last Tuesday, he called them, outraged. The next day, Costner came on their show -- which is not heard in Washington though it is broadcast from here -- and denied the rumor, saying he had met Kelly Ripken twice and had talked to her for a total of about 10 minutes at baseball functions in Baltimore and Boston.
     
  12. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    What the hell does any of this BS have to do with A-Rod?

    You're getting dumber by the minute, which seems impossible.
     
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