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Old 08-11-2010, 01:28 PM   #1
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An author was on QR 77 Sports Talk Aug 9th, talking about Sports Conspiracies. Did anyone else hear that? I think it was this book:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=nQd8...page&q&f=false

The Top 30 conspiracies are listed there in the table of contents. What do you think of any of these? Seemed like a lot of circumstantial nonsense with very little hard evidence.

The author suggests Superbowl III was rigged by the NFL for the Jets to win, to increase the popularity of the AFL teams.

He suggested all pro leagues try to engineer long playoff series between teams from larger markets.

He suggested Michael Jordan did not "retire" the first time, but was forced out by the NBA to hide his gambling problems.

http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/de...hp?TitleID=286

The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time

Ranking Sports’ Most Notorious Fixes, Cover-ups, and Scandals

Elliott Kalb and Mark Weinstein

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Old 08-11-2010, 01:40 PM   #2
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Pittsburgh winning the Crosby lottery.
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Old 08-11-2010, 02:34 PM   #3
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The Jordan "suspension" one has been talked about for awhile, I do believe that one, its all circumstancial but it makes sense to me. But only Jordan and Stern would have real proof

the Knicks/Ewing draft with the so called frozen envelope one has also gotten a lot written about it over the years

I am surprised they don't have the Cal Ripken one about him potentially missing a game when he was on his streak and the owner having someone go break the lights or something like that so the game would be postponed

the 1972 basketball final is really interesting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketb...ummer_Olympics

and the video is very interesting to say the least
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