Just four days after the World Anti-Doping Association stated that the successor to the KGB used intimidation and bribes to cover up and state-sponsor doping by Russian athletes (you can read the actual WADA report here), the International Amateur Athletics Federation -- the overseer of Olympic-level track and field -- has disqualified Russia from all IAAF-sanctioned track and field events until WADA declares otherwise.
This means no Olympic track athletes for Russia. In fact, one of the authors proposed outright across-the-board Olympic disqualification for Russia until they comply with WADA anti-doping guidelines.
Now, my first impression was to the threats of similar penalties to the United States a number of years back, which got as high as threatened about one step away from throwing the United States out in a similar manner. It appears the only difference here is there appears to be actual governmental interference involved and proven.
Friday, November 13, 2015
Today Was Not A Good Day, Part Three: Paris Terrorist Attack Rattles Soccer Match
At least 40 dead (ESPN's report on what I am about to tell you about puts the minimum at 150!), and probably more than 100 once it all gets totalled, in a series of Muslim-led terror attacks across Paris, in retaliation for European cooperation in anti-ISIS efforts in Syria.
One of the scarier scenes was at a friendly soccer match, France vs. Germany, when, in the twentieth minute, this was heard:
The stadium was a target, also because the President of France was at the game. The match was allowed to complete, even so! The pitch, soon afterward, was flooded with spectators, as certain exits were forbidden and the fans were only let out in small groups.
One of the scarier scenes was at a friendly soccer match, France vs. Germany, when, in the twentieth minute, this was heard:
The stadium was a target, also because the President of France was at the game. The match was allowed to complete, even so! The pitch, soon afterward, was flooded with spectators, as certain exits were forbidden and the fans were only let out in small groups.
Today Was Not A Good Day, Part Two: Pinkel resigns at Missouri.
There's more to this Missouri football situation than meets the eye.
It really appeared the entire program (and, in fact, the entire athletic department) was behind the prepared strike by the Black football players which has led to the resignations of the school president and chancellor.
Now add the head football coach to that growing list.
For the record, it appears, at least at first glance, that Gary Pinkel is resigning because of concerns over the return of his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma he's been suffering from, but I can't think the timing is going to help matters at that embattled school.
It really appeared the entire program (and, in fact, the entire athletic department) was behind the prepared strike by the Black football players which has led to the resignations of the school president and chancellor.
Now add the head football coach to that growing list.
For the record, it appears, at least at first glance, that Gary Pinkel is resigning because of concerns over the return of his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma he's been suffering from, but I can't think the timing is going to help matters at that embattled school.
Today Was Not A Good Day, Part One: Pedophile Pension
Somebody is going to have to make good on any prison threats to Jerry Sandusky - and, if so, they're probably going to have to do it soon.
The Penn State "football over everything" culture is, now, about three or four steps from the complete whitewashing of their football program, a major charity, and much of life in Happy Valley being a front for pedophile ex-coach who raped kids because he could.
Today, that piece of shit Jerry Sandusky got his pension back, with interest, in a court act of state-sponsored sports terrorism.
And that's what it is. If Jerry Sandusky was not an assistant coach at the only thing that matters in that part of Pennsylvania, the prisoners would only need one chance to execute him before trial. (And take it from someone who's been on the inside: They don't wait. There is no presumption of innocence in the joint. You even get ACCUSED of fucking a kid, and your life is in imminent danger at any time!)
Yes, his actions were as a part of Second Mile, but if you think that had nothing to do with his time at PSU, you're a bigger fool than you believe I am.
So when's the piece of shit getting out?
When are PSU supporters simply going to hunt down the victims and finish the job?
Because football over everything, right, Pedophile State?
The Penn State "football over everything" culture is, now, about three or four steps from the complete whitewashing of their football program, a major charity, and much of life in Happy Valley being a front for pedophile ex-coach who raped kids because he could.
Today, that piece of shit Jerry Sandusky got his pension back, with interest, in a court act of state-sponsored sports terrorism.
And that's what it is. If Jerry Sandusky was not an assistant coach at the only thing that matters in that part of Pennsylvania, the prisoners would only need one chance to execute him before trial. (And take it from someone who's been on the inside: They don't wait. There is no presumption of innocence in the joint. You even get ACCUSED of fucking a kid, and your life is in imminent danger at any time!)
Yes, his actions were as a part of Second Mile, but if you think that had nothing to do with his time at PSU, you're a bigger fool than you believe I am.
So when's the piece of shit getting out?
When are PSU supporters simply going to hunt down the victims and finish the job?
Because football over everything, right, Pedophile State?
Asian Match Fixing and the US Courts: But the biggest part of this story might be buried...
Today on ESPN, ESPN the Magazine had an article about the arrest and prosecution of the "world's biggest bookie" at the 2014 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
For anyone who's been following the work of Declan Hill, it is hard not to draw the conclusion that Borneo's Paul Phua was a major player in the fixing of numerous sports as part of his role in the huge underground betting syndicates of East Asia.
Phua basically acted as a mega-bookie for top-end bettors, many of whom could not bet on events to the extent they so wished legally -- if they could actually legally bet at all!
Phua, it is alleged, had over $400,000,000 of bets on this year's World Cup, and was operating out of a villa at Caesar's Palace when he was raided and arrested four days before the Final. Ironically, his arrest would come one day after what I believe to be the largest-scaled fixed sporting event in the history of the world: The Brazilians falling 7-1 to Germany on home soil in the World Cup semifinal.
And, if you follow Hill's work, it would be hard to believe that Phua is not a major player in the fixing of sporting events, as I said before.
Click the link above and read of the work of this story, interviewing over 80 people in trying to bring together the case against Phua, and the people he hung with.
And it's that I want to bring to fore here. In giving a biography of Phua, ESPN reveals that controversial poker player/believed and accused casino card cheat Phil Ivey sprang for $2.5 million of the $50 million bail set for Phua, due to his flight risk.
The ramifications of such a prominent player in the poker ranks being involved (especially because many of these players bet on other events (either themselves if they are allowed or through "beards" (proxies) if they are not!), legally and illegally) in the United States are mind-boggling. One of the things Brian Tuohy always tries to state, often in his Twitter account, is that "it can happen here". In my own personal opinion, it would be impossible for such a huge-scaled match-fixer like Phua to operate with prominent ties in the United States without many of the other tentacles of East Asian match-fixing coming with him.
In fact, in his biography, one of the first steps into the betting syndicates was learning how to set the lines of soccer matches -- often, the bread and butter of the match-fixing for the East Asians.
Phua became involved in an 1997 English match-fixing incident called the Floodlights Affair, where three men were arrested (two of them Malaysian, all paid by Phua) to knock out the lights at a pair of Premier League matches to fix the results with respect to Phua's growing betting empire. Unlike in England, once a match reached halftime, the house rules where Phua was operating forced the result to be paid as it stood if a match were abandoned. It is believed Phua was bankrupt at the time.
(Blogger's note: Think of that in the context of the Baltimore-San Francisco Super Bowl in New Orleans, as just one example!!!)
He would use the money he won from that fix to take his empire to an unheard-of level, expanding into many fixed horse races with a prominent race-fixer from Hong Kong.
Officials believe that Phua's company, IBCBet, has a $60,000,000,000 handle in the betting underworld of East Asia, of which the company gets 1% of that rake. Phua owning 70% of the company means Phua himself is worth over $400,000,000!
He was busted by police on the day of the Euro 2004 final, but simply fined about the price of a cheeseburger to him ($8,000) and sent to the airport.
By this time, Phua had ties to the exploding casino scene in Macau (again, read the story for the extent of it!), and had no problems showing it! You would think drawing this type of attention as a known match-fixer and crook would be dangerous to him, but Phua had several bodyguards and probably an army's worth of chips to cash in if he needed them!
Then, the story moves to Phua's (and others') ties to players like Phil Ivey, starting in 2010. After the shutdown of all the poker sites on Black Friday, most of the world's professionals looking for high stakes cash games went to Phua.
Phua's associate got good enough that, by 2012, he made the final table at poker's first $1,000,000 buy-in tournament: the World Series' charity event, The Big One for One Drop. Phua himself would win a $1,600,000 prize in London on 100,000 pounds bought in.
It was now clear that the resurgence of poker, after Black Friday, was due to a massive infusion of cash from (and eventually back to!) a large-scale sports match-fixer!
In fact, in the early portion of this decade, it appears that a significant portion of table game handle was being made in Las Vegas on baccarat, and much of that illegal money.
(Blogger's Note: As a person who occasionally dabbles in Las Vegas at extremely low stakes in comparison, I can at least give a nod to the descendence of table games there. If you want stakes at my level, you're effectively playing a "video game" table instead.)
Which all leads to his arrest in Las Vegas in 2014. By this time, there was a belief that Phua was making ten figures at every World Cup. They loaded up their villas with every manner of technology to make a mint right out from under Caesar's Palace.
The arrest in Las Vegas would not be Phua's first in that World Cup: He was arrested in Macau on June 18 and perp-walked after a similar illegal book had already taken in so much money, the president of China had taken notice and wanted him stopped!!! As a result of this arrest, he is no longer welcome in Macau.
The American arrest came as a result of Caesar's Palace officials getting a look at the villas at which Phua and his associates were staying -- something which should've been obvious, realizing that there could be $10,000,000 of furnishings in the villas, and Caesar's would take periodic inspections at times which would not be intrusive to the guests!
After a failed attempt to start a similar room in London, the FBI moved in...
Phua used his US poker connections to get a high-profile attorney who argued cases before the Supreme Court! By December, Phua's associates and the hopelessly corrupt frameworks of southeast Asia were working full-tilt to free Phua, questioning ties to the organized crime syndicates with no less than the minster of home affairs in Malaysia's government.
The next major players to defend Phua are even more shocking, and might explain much of the frustration Declan Hill has had in trying to make headway against match fixing: The former secretary general and general counsel of Interpol!
The Asian match-fixers have penetrated the highest levels of Interpol, making any such policing of their actions basically impossible!!!
And Phua won, being freed when the Federal courts declared the search warrant unconstitutional.
Anyone with any idea of the scope Phua's operation -- the money involved, the match-fixing, the amount of influence curried, etc. -- would know this is the ultimate "Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Jail" moment.
I've said a number of times that I no longer believe international soccer exists anymore in most countries without these books. And, considering the number of American influences in the situation, it's clear it's here. The question then becomes whether some of these underground books (remember the big Floyd Mayweather bet on Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals (Miami-Indiana) that one year and the reverberations that had around Vegas?) are in league with the power-brokers of sports, if not the leagues themselves!!!
For anyone who's been following the work of Declan Hill, it is hard not to draw the conclusion that Borneo's Paul Phua was a major player in the fixing of numerous sports as part of his role in the huge underground betting syndicates of East Asia.
Phua basically acted as a mega-bookie for top-end bettors, many of whom could not bet on events to the extent they so wished legally -- if they could actually legally bet at all!
Phua, it is alleged, had over $400,000,000 of bets on this year's World Cup, and was operating out of a villa at Caesar's Palace when he was raided and arrested four days before the Final. Ironically, his arrest would come one day after what I believe to be the largest-scaled fixed sporting event in the history of the world: The Brazilians falling 7-1 to Germany on home soil in the World Cup semifinal.
And, if you follow Hill's work, it would be hard to believe that Phua is not a major player in the fixing of sporting events, as I said before.
Click the link above and read of the work of this story, interviewing over 80 people in trying to bring together the case against Phua, and the people he hung with.
And it's that I want to bring to fore here. In giving a biography of Phua, ESPN reveals that controversial poker player/believed and accused casino card cheat Phil Ivey sprang for $2.5 million of the $50 million bail set for Phua, due to his flight risk.
The ramifications of such a prominent player in the poker ranks being involved (especially because many of these players bet on other events (either themselves if they are allowed or through "beards" (proxies) if they are not!), legally and illegally) in the United States are mind-boggling. One of the things Brian Tuohy always tries to state, often in his Twitter account, is that "it can happen here". In my own personal opinion, it would be impossible for such a huge-scaled match-fixer like Phua to operate with prominent ties in the United States without many of the other tentacles of East Asian match-fixing coming with him.
In fact, in his biography, one of the first steps into the betting syndicates was learning how to set the lines of soccer matches -- often, the bread and butter of the match-fixing for the East Asians.
Phua became involved in an 1997 English match-fixing incident called the Floodlights Affair, where three men were arrested (two of them Malaysian, all paid by Phua) to knock out the lights at a pair of Premier League matches to fix the results with respect to Phua's growing betting empire. Unlike in England, once a match reached halftime, the house rules where Phua was operating forced the result to be paid as it stood if a match were abandoned. It is believed Phua was bankrupt at the time.
(Blogger's note: Think of that in the context of the Baltimore-San Francisco Super Bowl in New Orleans, as just one example!!!)
He would use the money he won from that fix to take his empire to an unheard-of level, expanding into many fixed horse races with a prominent race-fixer from Hong Kong.
Officials believe that Phua's company, IBCBet, has a $60,000,000,000 handle in the betting underworld of East Asia, of which the company gets 1% of that rake. Phua owning 70% of the company means Phua himself is worth over $400,000,000!
He was busted by police on the day of the Euro 2004 final, but simply fined about the price of a cheeseburger to him ($8,000) and sent to the airport.
By this time, Phua had ties to the exploding casino scene in Macau (again, read the story for the extent of it!), and had no problems showing it! You would think drawing this type of attention as a known match-fixer and crook would be dangerous to him, but Phua had several bodyguards and probably an army's worth of chips to cash in if he needed them!
Then, the story moves to Phua's (and others') ties to players like Phil Ivey, starting in 2010. After the shutdown of all the poker sites on Black Friday, most of the world's professionals looking for high stakes cash games went to Phua.
Phua's associate got good enough that, by 2012, he made the final table at poker's first $1,000,000 buy-in tournament: the World Series' charity event, The Big One for One Drop. Phua himself would win a $1,600,000 prize in London on 100,000 pounds bought in.
It was now clear that the resurgence of poker, after Black Friday, was due to a massive infusion of cash from (and eventually back to!) a large-scale sports match-fixer!
In fact, in the early portion of this decade, it appears that a significant portion of table game handle was being made in Las Vegas on baccarat, and much of that illegal money.
(Blogger's Note: As a person who occasionally dabbles in Las Vegas at extremely low stakes in comparison, I can at least give a nod to the descendence of table games there. If you want stakes at my level, you're effectively playing a "video game" table instead.)
Which all leads to his arrest in Las Vegas in 2014. By this time, there was a belief that Phua was making ten figures at every World Cup. They loaded up their villas with every manner of technology to make a mint right out from under Caesar's Palace.
The arrest in Las Vegas would not be Phua's first in that World Cup: He was arrested in Macau on June 18 and perp-walked after a similar illegal book had already taken in so much money, the president of China had taken notice and wanted him stopped!!! As a result of this arrest, he is no longer welcome in Macau.
The American arrest came as a result of Caesar's Palace officials getting a look at the villas at which Phua and his associates were staying -- something which should've been obvious, realizing that there could be $10,000,000 of furnishings in the villas, and Caesar's would take periodic inspections at times which would not be intrusive to the guests!
After a failed attempt to start a similar room in London, the FBI moved in...
Phua used his US poker connections to get a high-profile attorney who argued cases before the Supreme Court! By December, Phua's associates and the hopelessly corrupt frameworks of southeast Asia were working full-tilt to free Phua, questioning ties to the organized crime syndicates with no less than the minster of home affairs in Malaysia's government.
The next major players to defend Phua are even more shocking, and might explain much of the frustration Declan Hill has had in trying to make headway against match fixing: The former secretary general and general counsel of Interpol!
The Asian match-fixers have penetrated the highest levels of Interpol, making any such policing of their actions basically impossible!!!
And Phua won, being freed when the Federal courts declared the search warrant unconstitutional.
Anyone with any idea of the scope Phua's operation -- the money involved, the match-fixing, the amount of influence curried, etc. -- would know this is the ultimate "Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Jail" moment.
I've said a number of times that I no longer believe international soccer exists anymore in most countries without these books. And, considering the number of American influences in the situation, it's clear it's here. The question then becomes whether some of these underground books (remember the big Floyd Mayweather bet on Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals (Miami-Indiana) that one year and the reverberations that had around Vegas?) are in league with the power-brokers of sports, if not the leagues themselves!!!
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Week 9 Score Report as we begin Week 10
Almost let this go all the way through...
Anyway...
Anyway...
- The 13 games of Week 9 averaged 50.30 points per game. (Last year: 48.23 PPG)
- The 132 games through 9 weeks have averaged 46.96 PPG. (Last year: 46.806)
- Home team was 9-4 for the week, 78-51 (.605) for the year. (Last year: 8-5, 82-49-1 (.625))
- Over was 8-5 for the week, 68 overs for the year, 59-63 unders, depending on circumstances. (Last year: 7-4-1 and 69-62-1/63-61-9)
- Favorites were 6-7 for the week, 56-66-10 for the year. A one-unit bet on every favorite would now be -15 units on the year.
- 172 penalties in the 13 games. One of the lowest averages of the year at 13 1/4 per game.
- 4 Cliffhangers for the week (Tennessee and Philadelphia with overtime TDs, Minnesota with an overtime FG, and Pittsburgh with a field goal at 2 seconds)
- 5 other games within one score at the end, and 2 more within one score at some point in the 4th quarter. Only 2 non-competitive games for the week!
- Cliffhangers: 33/132 (25%) (Last year: 29/134 (19.4%))
- Within one score: 73/132 (55.3%) (Last year: 40.3%)
- Competitive at some point in the 4th quarter: 91/132 (68.9%) (Last year: 62.69%)
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Only a matter of time, it appears...
... until the entire University of Missouri becomes Ground Zero for a race riot.
The resignation of the school president has done nothing to quell racial tensions at the university, and now it appears that it may be WHEN, not IF, the school literally starts burning.
Several death threats have permeated social media, with at least one person arrested for threatening African-American students at the school. And, of course, the "threats are free speech" people are out to defend him, it appears.
As I've said before on the subject: The entire damn state of Missouri is a racial tempest and has been for years. The state's population is going to become the centerpiece for what is about to happen. The University of Missouri is teetering on a "unable to proceed" moment, a term used by colleges to determine serious dangers (usually individual) by stating that if the danger were to be allowed to remain on the campus, the school would be unable to grant a safe education to the other students.
At least one professor demanded his students attend classes anyway, even with the threats on the table -- he has since offered his resignation.
The resignation of the school president has done nothing to quell racial tensions at the university, and now it appears that it may be WHEN, not IF, the school literally starts burning.
Several death threats have permeated social media, with at least one person arrested for threatening African-American students at the school. And, of course, the "threats are free speech" people are out to defend him, it appears.
As I've said before on the subject: The entire damn state of Missouri is a racial tempest and has been for years. The state's population is going to become the centerpiece for what is about to happen. The University of Missouri is teetering on a "unable to proceed" moment, a term used by colleges to determine serious dangers (usually individual) by stating that if the danger were to be allowed to remain on the campus, the school would be unable to grant a safe education to the other students.
At least one professor demanded his students attend classes anyway, even with the threats on the table -- he has since offered his resignation.
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