Beating the Book: Sean Patrick Griffin, Author, "Gaming the Game: The Story Behind the NBA Betting Scandal and the Gambler Who Made It Happen”
Beating The Book with Gill Alexander
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4.7 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Check it out now. |
| 0:07.8 | No doubt now. |
| 0:11.0 | February 25th, 2019, the beating the book podcast is Gil Alexander, post-Super |
| 0:16.3 | Bowl pre-March Madness. |
| 0:18.7 | I got some podcast episodes for you, including one on the Major League Baseball season, |
| 0:23.2 | preview all kinds of thoughts from Paul Spore at FanGraphs. |
| 0:27.2 | We'll get into some season wins and some props. |
| 0:29.8 | That's coming up. |
| 0:30.4 | But first today, this one is precipitated by a long-form ESPN.com piece that was put out last week about the Tim Donahey NBA betting scandal |
| 0:41.1 | from, well, a decade ago. And it was hailed by folks on the network as groundbreaking, pathbreaking, |
| 0:48.5 | and it occurs to me that it ought to be time to dust off my old interview with Sean Patrick Griffin. |
| 0:55.1 | This is a classic. |
| 1:00.3 | Sean Patrick Griffin, the author of the book Gaming the Game, the definitive account and investigation of the Tim Donahe-Betting scandal from so many years ago. This is a classic interview |
| 1:06.7 | with Sean, one of my favorite podcasts ever. In case you did not hear it so many years ago, |
| 1:12.4 | it is here in full form right now for your enjoyment. A window to what is not only the biggest |
| 1:19.7 | scandal in modern day sports history when it comes to betting, but also a reminder of how |
| 1:26.1 | this could very well happen in some form at any time. |
| 1:31.3 | Maybe not in the NBA, but in any other kind of sport. |
| 1:36.7 | I don't think it's that far-fetched. |
| 1:38.2 | Sean Patrick Griffin and the makings of the Tim Donahy NBA betting scandal |
| 1:43.5 | with all the betting characters involved |
| 1:46.1 | right here on the Beating the Book podcast. Enjoy. He is an associate professor of criminal |
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