by VoraciousWolf on Fri Jul 26, 2002 9:43 pm
I'm sorry Kirby but that's just poor logic. It is perfectly plausible that one opportunity for corruption (paving the way for the Lakers) was realized while another much less stronger opportunity for corruption (screwing the Nets) was not. Not to mention the fact that if both opportunities were realized it would be so obvious that even the rabid Laker fan might catch on to the truth. Then the league would be in even deeper doo-doo than it is.<br>
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'The rap on wrestling is that it's "sports entertainment," a contrived series of events in which athletes "pretend" to compete and results are scripted. Well, jeez ... what's the difference between that and just about any sporting event that matters? Try to tell me that every match between the Williams sisters isn't "arranged" and that South Korea deserved to be in the final four of the World Cup. And what about that Olympics figure-skating drama, or Sammy Sosa's 850-foot moonshots in the home run derby? You have to figure Hasim Rahman and Lennox Lewis wouldn't have thrown down if Gary Miller and the "Up Close" cameras hadn't been in the room. C'mon, Game 6 of the Lakers-Kings series? That wasn't preordained? Now who's being naïve'--Bill Simmons, ESPN.com page2--Today.
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