Sports Gambling: "Larceny Games" (cartoon)

Tom Brady is a superstar.

Tom Brady makes a special appearance on Family Guy to show what he can do on the field. Then Peter "Family Guy" Griffin gets in on the game, after being found out as not being a "cowboy astronaut millionaire" at his high school reunion.

 

The National Football League (NFL) publicly states not one of its games has come under outside influence -- ever.

Major League Baseball (MLB) claims it hasn't had a game "fixed" by gamblers since 1919.

Sports Gambling, Game Fixing, and the FBI

Point shaving hasn't admittedly occurred in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since 1954. This league-sponsored history, however, is a lie.

When sports and gambling are mixed, they create a volatile cocktail of greed, corruption, and the very real potential for game fixing (setting the outcome in advance).

Larceny Games provides details, and it names names -- names of Hall of Fame athletes who have either bet on their own sport or outright thrown games for bribes for the benefit of gamblers -- and why the sports leagues have covered up these incidents.

Author and expert Brian Tuohy

Often seen as a victimless crime, sports gambling is more than betting $50 on a favorite team; it's a multi-billion dollar, illegal, and mob-controlled industry.

Larceny Games digs into this vast underworld through interviews with sports gambling insiders and former FBI agents as well as detailing information from more than 400 previously unreleased FBI case files relating to sports bribery (the legal term for game fixing and/or point shaving) to reveal how professional athletes and referees have been corrupted into fixing games in the NFL, NBA, MLB, boxing, soccer, and tennis.

This is Brian Tuohy's second book on game fixing. More