Many of You Know and/or have agreed with me in the past that it seems sometimes professional sports has.......ummmm.....agenda's they want to accomplish. Like giving favorable calls to the New York Yankees cause they will generate the most money and interest in the World Series. I'm sure everyone has heard the SEC refs are pulling for Florida theory as well. Or making questionable calls on the Packers yesterday to give Brett the breaks he needs to complete the best story in Pro sports this year. This is the best storyline.....not even Vince McMahon could have written a better storyline than this.

But that HeadButting penalty on Johnny Jolly after the pack stuffed the Vikings in the red zone was garbage...I saw so much jawing going on and to make a back breaking call like that was brutal......But I digress cause Brett and the Viking did beat the Pack squarely.

Well, if you beleive Tim Donaghy then all of these theories have legs. Check out the excerpts below from his upcoming book......and many more HERE. DonJuan and Blaze...I hope you enjoyed that Heat title over the Mavs a few years ago.

Allen Iverson provides a good example of a player who generated strong reaction, both positive and negative, within the corps of NBA referees. For instance, veteran referee Steve Javie hated Allen Iverson and was loathe [sic] to give him a favorable call. If Javie was on the court when Iverson was playing, I would always bet on the other team to win or at least cover the spread. No matter how many times Iverson hit the floor, he rarely saw the foul line. By contrast, referee Joe Crawford had a grandson who idolized Iverson. I once saw Crawford bring the boy out of the stands and onto the floor during warm-ups to meet the superstar. Iverson and Crawford's grandson were standing there, shaking hands, smiling, talking about all kinds of things. If Joe Crawford was on the court, I was pretty sure Iverson's team would win or at least cover the spread.

The 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings presents a stunning example of game and series manipulation at its ugliest. As the teams prepared for Game 6 at the Staples Center, Sacramento had a 3–2 lead in the series. The referees assigned to work Game 6 were Dick Bavetta, Bob Delaney, and Ted Bernhardt. As soon as the referees for the game were chosen, the rest of us knew immediately that there would be a Game 7. A prolonged series was good for the league, good for the networks, and good for the game. Oh, and one more thing: it was great for the big-market, star-studded Los Angeles Lakers.

In the pregame meeting prior to Game 6, the league office sent down word that certain calls — calls that would have benefitted the Lakers — were being missed by the referees. This was the type of not-so-subtle information that I and other referees were left to interpret. After receiving the dispatch, Bavetta openly talked about the fact that the league wanted a Game 7.

"If we give the benefit of the calls to the team that's down in the series, nobody's going to complain. The series will be even at three apiece, and then the better team can win Game 7," Bavetta stated.

As history shows, Sacramento lost Game 6 in a wild come-from-behind thriller that saw the Lakers repeatedly sent to the foul line by the referees. For other NBA referees watching the game on television, it was a shameful performance by Bavetta's crew, one of the most poorly officiated games of all time.

Well, Maybe Donahy is full of BS or maybe he is just trying to make money hawking a book. Either way.....You have to read these excerpts....they are just priceless.

On a side note....keep up the good work posturing with the Umps at Red Bug Spragues.