How College Basketball Games Are Fixed

There are several things to look for when a basketball game is not on the level. Leaving players wide open for easy shots is a telltale sign. Another obvious tipoff when a game is fixed is when players suddenly find they're unable to make a layup -- or even a dunk -- in the most important game of the season. Indiana missed a bunch of layups and even a dunk in their "loss" to Syracuse in the NCAA Tournament in 2013.

Basketball is not the only sport that's fixed on a regular basis. So are football, baseball, hockey, golf, tennis and lots more. Read all about it at http://sportsfraud.blogspot.com/

Do you really think these coaches and players are so dumb that they don't realize you have to cover the opposing team's best shooters?  Watch as they give them a nice cushion and then make a belated, half-hearted attempt to get their hands up in the air as they lunge toward the shooter from a safe distance.

That's not how you play defense. You stick to your man like glue and prevent him from getting the ball. And if he does get ball, you don't stand there and watch while he launches a three-pointer. You get in his face and block the shot.

Michigan used this technique when they threw their NCAA Tournament game to Ohio University in 2012, and they did it again Feb. 2, 2014, when they allowed Yogi Ferrell to make 7 of 8 from 3-point range in their 63-52 loss to Indiana. Watch this video at the 0:50 mark to see an example of what happened in the Ohio University game. There's nobody within shouting distance of the shooter! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmbnamDRbHA



Bo Kimble, Hank Gathers, Jeff Fryer

Third-seeded Michigan also used that technique to throw an NCAA Tournament game to 11th-seeded Loyola Marymount in 1990, when Jeff Fryer made a tournament-record 11 three-point shots en route to an incredible 149-115 victory over the defending national champions. LOL! I guess the Michigan defense just forgot to show up for work that day. Watch as they deliberately leave Fryer wide open for the easy baskets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZSSkVdem_s

Less than two weeks before the start of the NCAA Tournament that year, Loyola Marymount's Hank Gathers collapsed and died during a West Coast Conference Tournament game against Portland in Los Angeles. But the Lions displayed the heart of a lion by recovering from the devastating loss to make a record-setting run in the NCAA Tournament, despite being an 11th seed -- not even a Top 40 team.

Or maybe they had some help along the way to make it a better story for college basketball.

They knocked off New Mexico State 111-92 in the first round before destroying Michigan in the second round. Then they edged Alabama 62-60 before finally losing to eventual national champion UNLV, 131-101.

Figuring all this out isn't rocket science. All Division I teams have at least one player who can consistently make three-point shots if they're left unguarded. When a game is fixed, those players are simply left wide open to score at will.

A textbook example of a basketball fix was the NCAA Tournament game between Michigan State and Louisville on March 22, 2012. Here's a four-minute highlight video that shows some of the key plays that resulted in Michigan State getting blown out 57-44 by a team they should have defeated easily: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy6k5MJ6Ic8

A lot of these highlights show the Spartans deliberately giving Louisville wide-open shots. Starting at the 1:30 mark, Draymond Green deliberately dribbles into the opposing player and then shoves him. Then we get some shots of Coach Tom Izzo and an MSU fan in meltdown mode, then there's a series of plays in which Louisville shooters are deliberately left alone to score uncontested baskets.

The most obvious example of all is probably at the 1:50 mark when No. 13 for Michigan State, Austin Thornton, intentionally leaves a Louisville player wide open in the corner for a three-point shot. Watch as he waits to play defense until he's sure the shooter has a good look at the basket, then lunges at him from a safe distance in a half-hearted attempt to make it look like he's trying to block the shot.

There's no one else in his zone. His responsibility is to guard that man in the corner. If he'd really tried, he could have easily gotten over there right away and prevented him from getting the ball or at least gotten a hand in his face as he tried to score. Instead, he just stood there and watched.

The better teams in college basketball shoot around 50 percent from the field in most of their games. Occasionally they might shoot over 60 percent, but if their shooting percentage drops below 40, I start to get suspicious.

I understand that players miss about 50 to 60 percent of their shots in a normal game, but they shouldn't fail to hit the rim on a layup, and they shouldn't shoot 25 percent from the field, especially on layups! Yet that's exactly what happened when Michigan State threw the Louisville game in last year's tournament. I'm talking about "layups" that bounced off the backboard with all the finesse of a bull in a china shop.

Not to mention all the air balls and shots that were way off the mark. All this in the biggest game of the season? It doesn't add up, people, and when that happens, it's time to start asking some questions.

Check out these stats that were posted on TV during the first half. 2-Point Field Goals: Louisville 1 for 11, MSU 2 for 10. In other words, two Sweet 16 teams combined to shoot 3 for 21 from 2-point range at the start of the biggest game of the season. That's 14.3 percent. LOL! Are we really supposed to believe that?

That game has to rank as one of the most obvious fixes in NCAA Tournament history, and believe me, that's saying a lot, because the competition is so fierce. See this post for more on the fixing of the 2013 NCAA Tournament: http://sportsfraud.blogspot.com/2013/04/an-upset-is-not-upset-when-other-team.html

The most obvious fix of the 2012-13 season was when Michigan lost to winless (0-14) Penn State on Feb. 27, 2013, with the Big Ten championship on the line. And keep in mind, all five starters on that Michigan team are now playing in the NBA, as of April 2015.

LOL! You'd have to be pretty naive to believe that game was on the level.

After losing its first 14 games of the Big Ten season, Penn State won that game 84-78 on the strength of 10-for-20 (50 percent) shooting from 3-point range. The Nittany Lions outscored Michigan 30-15 from the 3-point line, since the Wolverines could manage to make just 5 for 20 (25 percent). The reason for the mismatch was the Michigan defense deliberately leaving Penn State players wide open beyond the 3-point line, and then the offense missing a bunch of 3-pointers on purpose.

The Wolverines also committed 15 turnovers, an unusually high number for a team that usually made fewer than 10 in a game. And this was against the slowest and least athletic team in the Big Ten, when a win could have meant staying in the race for the conference championship. Think about it -- it doesn't add up!

Speaking of fixed games, the 2014 tournament was plagued by dozens of them. Some of the most obvious include Duke's opening-round loss to Mercer, which was then trounced by 10th-seeded Tennessee; and Michigan State and Florida both getting blown out by lowly Connecticut -- not even a Top 25 team. And then Connecticut knocking off Kentucky in the championship game when the Wildcats missed all those free throws on purpose. What a fraud!

Other signs to watch for when the fix is in include an attack of uncharacteristically egregious "mental lapses," failure to make obvious strategy adjustments, failure to get back on defense on the fast break, crooked officiating, deliberately missed shots and unforced turnovers, failure to box out on the boards, failure to hustle after loose balls, dribbling into traffic and the list goes on.

Another commonly used method of fixing a game is to have one team miss a ton of free throws. Butler went 10-19 from the foul line in their "loss" to Xavier in the Big East Tournament in 2015, and Kentucky missed a ton of free throws when they threw the NCAA Championship Game to Connecticut in 2014.

All this in the biggest games of the season? It doesn't add up!

Not every game is fixed, and when a game is fixed, not every play is fixed, and not every player is necessarily participating in the scam. It takes only a few key plays to turn a game around. Obviously the games need some credibility, so there might be just a few key players involved, perhaps even just one, especially if it involves point-shaving in which the favorite still wins but doesn't cover the spread. Other times, just about the entire team participates.

When Michigan threw the Michigan State game in East Lansing on Feb. 12, 2013, Tim Hardaway Jr. went 1 for 11 from the field, including 0 for 5 from three-point range. A truly pathetic display of shooting, especially for someone who's usually around 50 percent or better when he's not actually trying to miss. I can remember lots of games in his career when he shot something like 7 for 11 or 8 for 10.

I'm not saying Michigan State didn't have a good team. Even if both teams had been allowed to give it 100 percent, they might still have won that game. But they wouldn't have won 75-52, I can guarantee that.

Another telltale sign that game was fixed was the turnover column, where Michigan racked up 16 -- about twice their usual number. Michigan was an exceptionally good ball-handling team when it wasn't throwing a game last season. There were lots of games when the Wolverines had fewer than 10 turnovers, and there's no reason why that Michigan State game should have been any different.

Michigan had only seven turnovers in the rematch in Ann Arbor, which they won despite going 0 for 12 from three-point range -- another highly suspicious figure for a team that was consistently in the range of 30 to 50 percent on three-point attempts.

College basketball has been marred by point-shaving scandals before, but they were usually isolated incidents. Now it's worse than ever, and the news media refuse to investigate it.

Probably the most famous point-shaving scandal of all was the 1951-52 affair, when players from Kentucky, Bradley and several other schools were charged with criminal activity. Some of them were even sentenced to jail terms for their involvement in the various scandals. See this: http://espn.go.com/classic/s/basketball_scandals_explosion.html

In the summer of 2012, three men pleaded guilty in connection with the point-shaving scandal at the University of San Diego. See this: http://www.examiner.com/article/three-plead-guilty-university-of-san-diego-basketball-game-fixing-scandal

And Auburn point guard Varez Ward was investigated by the FBI for alleged point-shaving last season. See this: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7662296/fbi-investigating-auburn-tigers-varez-ward-point-shaving-according-report

These isolated cases are just the tip of the iceberg, though. They usually involve just a few players and gamblers. What's going on today is far worse, because it's systemic.

And basketball isn't the only sport embroiled in controversy. A gigantic scandal is raging in Europe right now over the fixing of soccer matches. And there's also widespread corruption in the PGA and the LPGA. Golfers give away strokes all the time by deliberately missing easy putts, hitting their tee shots into the woods and so on. Brandt Snedeker gave away the Masters tournament on April 14, 2013.

Lots of times when a golfer misses a putt on purpose or intentionally hits a wretched shot, he'll rub his nose or touch his face afterward. That's a well-known Masonic gesture used as a signal to tip off other Freemasons when the fix is in.

And women's professional tennis has been dominated for years by two men -- Serena and Venus Williams . See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwrP1zHC5Eo&index=3&list=FLZ3TfW19LqoDqVyZ4XHfCJQ

Don't Let the Cover-Up Crew Throw You Off Track

A word of warning to those of you who are new to the subject of game-fixing in college and professional sports. I'm constantly subjected to vicious personal attacks for making these allegations, and one reason why is that people are naturally reluctant to admit they've been deceived, especially about something that's important to them.

There's a natural tendency to recoil when confronted with unpleasant facts and to kick into denial mode. It's a well-known pyschological reaction known as cognitive dissonance. I reacted the same way myself until I learned the truth about this and many other unpleasant subjects, but I've discovered that lots of things in this world are not always as innocent, simple and straightforward as they appear. The question is, would you rather know the truth or would you rather continue to be deceived?

For those of you who are feeling a natural inclination to reject this information without giving it a fair chance, I would just make a simple request. Try looking at the evidence with an open mind and then decide for yourself whether it's something that merits closer scrutiny.

Ask yourself how many times you've been surprised in recent years when your favorite team played an uncharacteristically terrible game and caused you to feel disappointment and bewilderment. As a Michigan graduate and longtime fan of the Wolverines, I noticed a dramatic increase in that sort of experience in recent years, and that made me curious, so I started to watch the games from a more skeptical viewpoint, and that's how I arrived at my conclusions.

My motivation for bringing this issue to the attention of other people is the fact that I don't enjoy being deceived and I don't enjoy seeing other people being deceived. I hope that by making more people aware of the problem, the result will be a decrease in the incidence of game-fixing and a restoration of the integrity of college and professional sports.

The way things are now, some games have little more integrity than a professional wrestling match.

As a lifelong sports fan and armchair quarterback, I've enjoyed watching the games for many reasons, including the spirit of athletic competition and the strategy involved. Believing that both teams were giving it 100 percent is what made it interesting to me. But it's been a long time since I've felt that way, and I'd like to see the integrity of the games restored for my own sake, the sake of my fellow sports fans, and also for the players and coaches.

Another reason why I'm attacked so bitterly for suggesting not everything is on the level in the world of college and professional sports is that there are lots of  agents out there whose job is to help cover up the fact that there's an epidemic of game-fixing going on now.

In the past when I've posted comments about this subject on newspaper web sites, I've been called "delusional" and given such insulting and ridiculous advice as, "Take your meds."

LOL! I'm not delusional, and I'm not on medication of any kind. I'm a retired newspaper reporter and editor, and I started out as a sports writer, so I've had lots of experience covering college sports and I've learned a lot through the years.

But the cover-up artists rarely address any of the issues I raise. Their job is to discredit the messenger, and thereby, they hope, to discredit the message.

Don't let them throw you off track. I can back up my allegations with sound logical arguments, and since they aren't able to offer anything substantive in response, they usually resort to insulting me personally.

The fixing of college and professional sports has been going on ever since the games began, and it's much worse today than ever before. But don't take my word for it. There's lots more about game-fixing at http://thefixisin.net/
 

Lots of Favorites Took a Dive in the NCAA Tournament

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

The 2013 NCAA Tournament has to go down as one of the most corrupt tournaments in history, and believe me, that's saying a lot, because the competition is so fierce. The casualty list of favorites that were required to take a dive includes Notre Dame, San Diego State, Oklahoma State, Gonzaga, Wisconsin, Kansas State, New Mexico, UCLA, Georgetown, St. Louis, Ohio State, Indiana, UNLV and Michigan.

I'm including Michigan on that list because, even though they were only a No. 4 seed, they had more talent than everyone else and probably could have gone undefeated if they hadn't been required to throw so many games. No one else had five NBA prospects in the starting lineup. Plus, they were a well-coached team and played like it when the fix wasn't in.

(Editor's note: By the summer of 2016, all five starters from that 2013 Michigan team were still playing in the NBA. As of January 2017, Mitch McGary was no longer active, but Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway Jr., Glenn Robinson III and Nik Stauskas were still playing in the NBA.)

The second half of Michigan State's loss to Duke was also highly suspicious. If the fix hadn't been in, I seriously doubt they would have lost by 10 points after playing Duke evenly in the first half. They still might have lost, but it would have been a close, hard-fought struggle.

The most obvious fix of the season was when Michigan lost to winless (0-14) Penn State on Feb. 27 with the Big Ten championship on the line. You'd have to be pretty naive to believe that game was on the level.

After losing its first 14 games of the Big Ten season, Penn State won that game 84-78 on the strength of 10-for-20 (50 percent) shooting from 3-point range. The Nittany Lions outscored Michigan 30-15 from the 3-point line, since the Wolverines could manage to make just 5 for 20 (25 percent). The reason for the mismatch was Michigan deliberately leaving Penn State players wide open beyond the 3-point line.

The Wolverines also committed 15 turnovers, an unusually high number for a team that usually made fewer than 10 in a game. And this was against the slowest and least athletic team in the Big Ten, when a win could have meant staying in the race for the conference championship. Think about it -- it doesn't add up!

Sometimes when a team pulls off a particularly suspicious upset, such as 15th-seeded Florida Gulf Coast's "win" over second-seeded Georgetown, it's allowed to win its next game just to deflect some of the attention from its first crooked win. That way, clueless fans will say, "I guess those guys must be for real."

So after Florida Gulf Coast knocked off Georgetown, they upset seventh-seeded San Diego State in their next game and kept the score close against Florida before losing. See what a tough team they were? LOL! This was a team that finished 26-11 after a rugged season in the Atlantic Sun Conference.

Their season opener was less than auspicious, as they got blown out 80-57 by Virginia Commonwealth, the same team that got run off the floor by Michigan in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. But they bounced back nicely with a 63-51 win over Miami, which was seeded second in the NCAA. That game was probably fixed to give the FGC program a boost in visibility -- an upset against one of the state's top programs in its second year as a Division I program.

They got blown out by Duke, St. John's and Iowa State, and then lost to Maine, Mercer, East Tennessee State, Lipscomb (twice) and Stetson. But that was before they were miraculously transformed into a juggernaut in time for the NCAA Tournament.

LOL! The gangsters involved in fixing all these games must think college basketball fans are pretty naive, and they're right, because most fans don't suspect anything suspicious is going on despite all the "upsets" that wreck the tournament every year. Don't be one of those clueless fans! Be skeptical when a game doesn't add up, and then look for the telltale signs that the fix is in.

I like to root for the underdog too, but not when the favorite is taking a dive. All those "upsets" prevented some excellent matchups from taking place this season, such as Gonzaga-Ohio State, Georgetown-Michigan, Indiana-Marquette, Indiana-Michigan in the national semifinals and lots more.

Wichita State's "miraculous" run was another example of a team getting its path cleared by the other team taking a dive. In their opener, the ninth-seeded Shockers "shocked the world" by blowing out eighth-seeded Pittsburgh. Somehow the Panthers just forgot to show up for work that day.

Funny, isn't it? You would have thought they'd be excited about playing in the tournament. Instead, they played like they just wanted to go home as soon as possible. It wasn't that big of an upset except for the margin of victory, 73-55.

That set the stage for another "miraculous" tournament run. In their next game, they knocked off top-seeded Gonzaga, which had struggled in its opener. Now fans could say, "I guess Gonzaga just wasn't as good as we thought. They were lucky to win their opener against Southern. They were ripe for an upset."

Now Wichita State had some credibility, plus they caught a "break" when Kansas State took a dive against LaSalle and Wisconsin did the same against Mississippi. That meant that instead of facing fifth-seeded Wisconsin in their next game, the 13th-seeded Explorers were matched up with 12th-seeded Ole Miss. They survived that test but couldn't stop the burgeoning powerhouse from Wichita, so the Shockers advanced to the regional finals against Ohio State.

The Buckeyes threw that game in one of the most obvious fixes of the tournament. Somehow they just couldn't be bothered to show up for work that day.

After decimating the West Regional, the Shockers couldn't very well be allowed to get blown out in the Final Four, so they were allowed to take a commanding lead in the first half before finally succumbing to Louisville in a valiant effort. See how it works?

The point I'm making here is that you need to open your mind to the possibility that most of these "upsets" are not upsets at all, they're hoaxes.

In addition to looking for all the telltale signs while you're watching the games, check the box scores and look for statistics that don't ring true. For example, when Michigan lost to Wisconsin this season in the Big Ten Tournament, they held the Badgers to 17 points in the first half. But in the second half, the Wolverines surrendered 51 points and lost 68-59.

Are we really supposed to believe that a team with five NBA prospects in the starting lineup, led by one of the best coaches in the game, could give up 51 points in the second half after holding Wisconsin to 17 points in the first half?  Leaving players wide open for easy shots is a telltale sign, and this game was a prime example because it was lost in the three-point shooting column, where Wisconsin outscored Michigan 24-9.

Nik Stauskas, rated one of the top 100 players in college basketball by ESPN, who went 6-for-6 from three-point range against Florida in the NCAA Tournament, was 1 for 8 against the Badgers. That was another sign that the fix was in.

For lots more on the game-fixing scandal, see this:

College and Professional Sports Are Crooked as a Dog's Hind Leg

The Fixing of the NCAA Championship Game

Michigan lost the national championship game despite having five legitimate NBA propspects in the starting lineup and being led by one of the top coaches in the game. With Trey Burke, Glenn Robinson and Mitch McGary all rated in the top 15 of NBA prospects and Tim Hardaway a cinch to be drafted in the second round, the Wolverines should have won that game easily. And they would have if they hadn't been forced to take a dive.

(Editor's note: As of February 2015, all five starters from the Michigan team that lost to Louisville in the 2013 Championship Game were playing in the NBA: Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway, Mitch McGary, Nik Stauskas and Glenn Robinson.)

Louisville didn't have a single player rated in the Top 15. Not that talent guarantees success on the basketball court, as basketball is a team game. But this Michigan team was well-coached and cool under pressure when it was allowed to give 100 percent, such as the Big Ten opener at Northwestern, which the Wolverines won 94-66 while shooting 59.6 percent from the field, and the following game against Iowa, which they won 95-67.

When they were allowed to play their A game, they were very proficient at working the ball around for an open shot, and they rarely committed turnovers. There were many games in which they committed less than 10, and a few in which they committed 6 or fewer. That's saying something for a team that played at breakneck speed.

Unfortunately, the championship game was fixed, like so many other games in the tournament, year after year. The Michigan team that showed up in the second half was not the real Michigan team -- it was a team that was ordered to throw the game and allow Louisville to walk away with the trophy.

It was clear from the start that the game was fixed because the officiating was so obviously crooked. In the opening minutes with Michigan ahead 5-3, Hardaway drove in for a layup and was denied a basket when the officials refused to make an obvious goaltending call against Gorgui Dieng.

On the ensuing fast break, Peyton Siva plowed into Burke, and Burke was called for a foul despite the fact that he was backpedaling at the time. In basketball, you can't just plow into the opposing players when they've moving away from you. That's called charging, and the officials refused to make that call as well, because the plan was to take Burke out of the game early with foul trouble.

A few minutes later, Siva got away with another charging foul when Robinson stepped in front of him and took a charge. Again, Robinson was mistakenly charged with the foul. Then, with Michigan leading 20-15 and 11 minutes remaining in the first half, Burke was charged with a second questionable foul as he tried to block Luke Hancock's three-point attempt. There did not appear to be much contact on the play, if any.

As a result or those two crooked foul calls, the national Player of the Year had to sit out the next 11 minutes. That in itself is highly suspicious, because if anything, the refs usually tend to show favoritism toward the game's marquee players, especially in a nationally televised NCAA championship game. Instead, on this occasion, the game's top player was singled out to be railroaded to the bench. You'd have to be pretty naive to believe it was all just an accident.

I counted at least six blatant officiating mistakes that went against Michigan in the first half, but despite the officials' best efforts to sabotage the Wolverines, Spike Albrecht ruined their plan by scoring 17 points in the first half and leading the Wolverines  to a 35-23 lead with 3:10 left in the first half. That's when the process of throwing the game kicked into high gear.

Keep in mind, Michigan is skilled in this endeavor and has lots of experience, having thrown seven other games this season and having shaved points in many others that they could easily have won by a more decisive margin.

With three minutes left in the half, the Michigan team that had played so well in the opening minutes could suddenly do nothing right. They started missing easy baskets, fumbling away loose balls, throwing the ball away, leaving opposing players wide open for easy baskets and failing to block out on the boards, among other things. Very uncharacteristic for a well-coached team that's cool under pressure when not required to throw a game.

After going on a 15-6 run with Burke on the bench, they allowed Louisville to get back in the game with a 14-1 run of their own, including 12 points by Hancock, who was deliberately left wide open for several three-pointers, despite being an obviously capable outside shooter. Do you really find nothing suspicious about this meltdown? Michigan's 12-point lead was down to one by halftime, 38-37, and the fix was in for the entire second half.

The second half was more of the same, as the previously smooth and composed Michigan players continued to run around the basketball court like chickens with their heads cut off. The only possible explanation is that it was all in the (Louisville) Cards, so to speak.

See, Louisville has been forced to throw its share of games through the years, and sometimes programs are rewarded for their previous cooperation. Michigan's long run in the NCAA Tournament this season was probably a reward for cooperating by throwing their first-round game to Ohio University last season in what has to go down as one of the most suspicious "upsets" of that corrupt affair, and believe me, that's saying a lot.

Michigan even benefits sometimes from all the fraud that's going on. An example from this season would be the "miraculous comeback" against Kansas, in which the Jayhawks cooperated by giving away the game. Of course, if Michigan hadn't been forced to give it away in the first place, Kansas never would have had to give it back to them.

But back to the Louisville game. In addition to all the the usual mistakes that comprise the typical meltdown, such as missing easy baskets, making senseless turnovers and silly fouls, leaving players wide open, deliberately dribbling into traffic, making forced passes, missing free throws, failing to block out on the boards and so on, the second half also featured more corrupt officiating.

Burke was called for another foul when he made a clean block on Siva with 5:09 left in the game and Michigan down 67-64. Later, Hancock was left wide open for the three-pointer that put Louisville ahead 76-66 with 3:25 left and pretty much sealed the deal.

The Wolverines still had a chance when they trailed just 78-74 with 50 seconds left. But Caris LeVert stepped out of bounds with a crucial rebound that would have given them the ball and a chance to narrow the lead, making no effort to stay inbounds or pass the ball to a teammate on his way out.

You have to feel sorry for the players and coaches. Imagine what it must be like to be forced to lose the NCAA championship game on purpose and then to be sworn to secrecy about the entire disgraceful affair.

Even Women's Basketball Games Are Fixed Sometimes

Notre Dame was forced to Throw One for the Gipper in their 83-65 loss to Connecticut in the Final Four of the women's tournament on April 7. That game was fixed, just like hundreds of other college basketball games every season. Baylor's "loss" to Louisville in the regional semifinals was another obvious hoax.

One of the telltale signs to watch for when a game is fixed is when players suddenly find they're unable to make routine jump shots and layups in the most important game of the season.

Notre Dame's uncharacteristically abysmal (29.7 percent) shooting performance against Connecticut is a telltale sign that the fix was in. Against Connecticut, Kayla McBride was 3 for 4 (75 percent) from 3-point range and 2 for 16 (12.5 percent) from 2-point range. When they're not missing shots on purpose, players can usually manage to shoot a better percentage from 10 feet than they can from 20 feet. Not in this game.

The Irish (22-74, 29.7 percent)) managed 12 more field-goal attempts than Connecticut (29-62, 46.8 percent). If they'd made 10 more baskets, they would have won the game. That would have meant going 32 for 74, or 43.2 percent. That shouldn't have been too difficult, considering they shot 41.3 percent in their previous game against Connecticut, and they shot 46.0 percent against Duke in the regional finals.

Skylar Diggins (3-15), Kayla McBride (5-20) and Jewell Loyd (5-17) combined to shoot 13 for 52 from the field, or 25 percent, and yet Notre Dame made 17 for 20 from the free-throw line (85 percent). Strange, isn't it, considering they had so much trouble finding the range everywhere else on the floor?

I'm not saying Connecticut didn't have a great team. They might have won anyway, even if the game hadn't been fixed. But they wouldn't have won by 18 points, I can guarantee that. It would have been another close, hard-fought struggle, just like the first three Notre Dame-Connecticut games this season.

As far as the Baylor-Louisville game is concerned, that one was thrown at the 3-point line, where Louisville went 16 for 25 for 64 percent, thanks to Baylor leaving them wide open on purpose. From 2-point range, the Cardinals had a more typical performance, 11 for 31 (35 percent).

Baylor's Brittney Griner is considered by some experts to be the greatest player in the history of women's basketball, and the Bears also have at least one and maybe two other WNBA propspects in their starting lineup. Baylor went 40-0 last year, won 32 in a row this season and was a prohibitive favorite to win another NCAA championship. I guess it just wasn't in the (Louisville) Cards this time.

Connecticut exposed the fraud by trouncing Louisville 93-60 in the championship game. In other words, the ballclub that knocked off the greatest team in the history of women's basketball got blown out in the championship game by 33 points by a lesser team! And 33 just happens to be the highest degree of corruption available in Freemasonry. Another tip-off that it was a Masonic operation all the way.

The gangsters in charge of fixing all these games must think basketball fans are pretty damn naive, and on the whole, they're right. But I'm not your typical college basketball fan, and I can usually tell when the fix in in. After reading this blog, I hope you'll be able to as well.

Cubs Threw the NL East in '69 and the NLCS in '84, '89, '03, '15 and '17

When baseball players start booting routine grounders and making wild throwing errors, it's usually because the fix is in. The 2003 National League Championship Series was a prime example.

The Cubs led the Marlins 3-1 in the eighth inning of Game 6 when shortstop Alex Gonzalez booted a routine double-play ball that would have gotten them out of the inning. Instead, his intentional error opened the floodgates, and Florida (now Miami) went on to win Game 6 and Game 7 to advance to the World Series, where they defeated the Yankees.

Watch Gonzalez boot the double-play ball at the 1:40 mark, and be sure to watch the slow-motion replay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw3ccParGxM

Apparently Major League Baseball wanted to reward the Marlins with their second world championship in seven years. They won their first one in 1997, even though the franchise was only in its fifth year of existence.

Meanwhile, until they finally won the World Series in 2016, the Cubs hadn't made it to the World Series since 1945, and hadn't won one since 1908. Every time they got a good team together, they were forced to throw the playoffs. They also took a dive against the Dodgers in the 2017 NLCS.

Perhaps the most obvious fix of all was in 1969, when the Cubs threw an eight-game lead in August and ended up eight games behind the world champion Mets.

Evidently Major League Baseball wanted the Mets to win that year -- their eighth season since being founded in 1962 to replace the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, who had departed for San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively. MLB officials probably thought it would be good for baseball for New York to have another successful franchise.

The Mets won it all, even though their starting lineup was vastly inferior to the Cubs' and to the Baltimore Orioles, who threw the World Series to the Mets. Not that the Mets didn't have some great pitchers in Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Gary Gentry, Nolan Ryan and Tug McGraw, but maybe their fantastic run at the end of the season wasn't so "miraculous" after all. Maybe their opponents were required to throw a few games along the way.

That would explain how they managed to go 14-3 in their last 17 games in August, and 24-8 in their last 32 regular-season games during September and October. They finished the season at 100–62 after going an incredible 38-11 in their final 49 regular-season games -- a mind-boggling winning percentage of .775.

The Mets were good, but they weren't that good. Most of their players spent the year hovering somewhere just north of the Mendoza  line.

Meanwhile, the Cubs couldn't do anything right down the stretch, despite having done almost everything right in the first five months of the season. And this was a veteran team with players who supposedly were hungry for their first National League pennant and World Series.

The Cubs had an infield full of All-Stars in Ron Santo, Don Kessinger, Glenn Beckert and Ernie Banks. Plus they had Billy Williams and Jim Hickman in the outfield, Randy Hundley behind the plate, three terrific starting pitchers in Ferguson Jenkins (21 wins), Bill Hands (20 wins) and Ken Holtzman (17 wins), and a terrific closer in Phil Regan (The Vulture).

Another reason why Major League Baseball may have wanted the Mets to win the World Series in 1969 was to give their incredible season-ending hot streak more credibility. By winning the World Series over the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles, one of the greatest teams in MLB history, sports writers and fans could proclaim the Mets a "team of destiny."

That took some of the attention away from the atrocity that was committed against the Cubs that year. It gave the Mets' miraculous comeback against the Cubs an air of legitimacy.

The same goes for the Marlins' victory over the Yankees in the 2003 World Series. That took some of the attention away from the obvious hoax that was committed against the Cubs in the National League Championship Series.

The Cubs also threw the 1984 National League Championship Series against the Padres, when they blew a 2-0 lead and lost three straight in San Diego. And they took a dive against the Giants in the 1989 playoffs. (Remember Sandberg and Dawson chasing all those pitches in the dirt?)

In my opinion, the Cubs' abysmal performances against the Braves in the 1998 playoffs, the Diamondbacks in 2007 and the Dodgers in 2008 were also highly suspicious.

There's more on how to fix a baseball game here:
How Baseball Games Are Fixed

And there's lots more on the fixing of college and professional sports here, including information on who's doing all the game-fixing behind the scenes and why they're doing it: http://sportsfraud.blogspot.com

All My Favorite Teams Take a Dive

As I've pointed out countless times on this blog, the people who are in charge of destroying my life will do just about anything to make my life more miserable than it already is. Fixing of athletic contests involving my favorite teams is just another example of this.

The primary victims of this in the past few years have been the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Bears, and the University of Michigan football, basketball and baseball teams. Notre Dame football and basketball have also been adversely affected, and even professional golfers.

Most of the games the Michigan football team has lost since 2006 were deliberately sabotaged as part of the massive campaign to destroy my life. They've been trying to get me to kill myself for years, and apparently they're hoping something like that will push me over the edge.

I'll admit, it does disappoint me, and I feel bad for the players and coaches who are co-opted into the conspiracy, but in the final analysis, it's not that important to me. I have other things I'm far more concerned about, and all their silly games are just a blip on the radar screen of my life. I have nothing to do with the outcomes of these games.

When I realized the games were being fixed, I stopped watching. For a while, that seemed to help a bit, but sometimes when I don't watch the games, my team deliberately throws the game anyway, especially if I'm on the Internet during the game or doing something else they disapprove of, such as playing golf. Or maybe I was on the Internet before the game.

The first one I noticed was the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2, 2006, when Notre Dame lost to Ohio State 34-20. I remember I had a bet on Notre Dame, which I believe was either a slight underdog or a slight favorite. It was Charlie Weis's first year at the helm, and the Irish had a pretty successful season. They just missed knocking off archrival USC in October 2005.

The Fiesta Bowl was marred by several uncharacteristic defensive lapses, as the Irish gave up some big plays because of missed tackles and missed assignments in the secondary. Later that year, when I moved into my apartment in South Bend, there was a guy on the first floor who had the newspaper account of the game plastered across his front door, which was adjacent to the mailbox. I had to see that every time I went down to the mailbox, and this was more than two months after the game had been played.

I believe that was a psychological operation designed to remind me of an event that had been disappointing to me. By then I had figured out the game was fixed, so it was also a reminder that they had the power to sabotage my favorite teams.

Another obvious hoax was the Ohio State-Michigan game in 2006, the day after Bo Schembechler supposedly died of a heart attack. I have my doubts about whether "natural causes" resulted in that heart attack, because the timing of his death on the day before the big game was suspicious, and the CIA has had the capability to cause a heart attack remotely for many years. I believe that was the method they used to kill my mother in 1991, and there's an excellent chance it will soon be the method used to kill me.
After I posted this, I received some threatening e-mail messages.

At any rate, Michigan was moving the ball at will against Ohi State, but the defense gave it all back at every opportunity. As I recall, the giveaway was all the blown assignments in the secondary and missed tackles. Michigan never used to give up 75-yard touchdowns, and it happens all the time now.

On offense, deliberately thrown interceptions, dropped passes and fumbles are easily concealed as an "off day" or whatever. But it's all a hoax. And totally out of character for Michigan teams through the years.

Perhaps the most blatant example was the season opener against Appalachian State in 2007. I'm telling you right now, if they had wanted to, Michigan could have won that game if Chad Henne had had one hand tied behind his back. But they were under strict orders to lose.

The Michigan basketball and baseball teams also have deliberately thrown games in recent years. All it takes is one or two key players to screw everything up. Notre Dame is forced to do the same thing, even though I'm not really a Notre Dame fan. I take an interest in their football and basketball teams because I grew up in South Bend and Niles, but it doesn't cause me any great anguish to see them lose. I think Charlie Weis would have been successful there, but he had to throw games, too.

Michigan's basketball team had virtually everyone back last season from a team that made the NCAA Tournament, but they were plagued by blatant mistakes such as intentionally missed shots, defensive lapses, turnovers and various other intentional gaffes.

And although Notre Dame had a fairly successful basketball season, the Irish took a dive in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, losing to unheralded Old Dominion when star play Luke Harangody deliberately had probably the worst game of his career.

Just last week, the Chicago Cubs set a record for futility in a 17-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies when they gave up 12 runs after two were out in the eighth inning, giving up an astounding major-league record 11 straight hits in the process. And this wasn't exactly Murderers Row they were facing, it was a mediocre Colorado team.

What I'm alleging is that it wasn't just a fluke. If a hitter knows what type of pitch is coming and its approximate location, it's a lot easier to get a hit. There could have been a signal of some sort communicated to the Colorado hitters.

Another tainted moment in Chicago Cubs history was the Wrigley Field opener of the playoff series against Arizona in October 2007. The Cubs were down 2-0 in the series, even though I hadn't watched the games, so I decided what the hell, I was going to watch some of this one. I was in my car headed to a bar to watch some of the game and had the game tuned in on the radio. Sure enough, the very first pitch of the game was tagged for a home run by the Diamondbacks, who went on to sweep the series.

Sometimes the screw-ups are numerical, built around the number 33, which is a sacred number to Freemasons. There are 33 degrees in Scottish Rite Freemasonry, and they like to use the number to communicate their influence on events.

For example, on Oct. 25, 2008, my ex-wife's birthday, Notre Dame defeated Washington 33-7 in a game I purposely did not watch. I believe the signature 33 was to show Freemasonry's connection to my ex-wife's family. The following week, Notre Dame lost to Pittsburgh, 36-33, because I was listening to the game on the radio on my way home.

The next year, they defeated Michigan State 33-30 and lost to Connecticut 33-30. The Connecticut game went into overtime, and there were some machinations necessary to achieve the final score of 33. I believe it was a deliberately engineered score because I was watching the game.

The Cubs have had several games this year in which they gave up three runs in successive innings, usually the second and third. When you read the linescore for the first three innings, it looks like this: 033. I believe those scores were deliberately engineered to send me a message.

And what would that message be? I don't know for sure, but a few ideas come to mind: stop reading about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, stop reading about Planet X, stop reading about chemtrails, stop posting to your blog and kill yourself or we'll ruin the Cubs' season.

A couple weeks ago, I tried an experiment to see if I could improve the Cubs' fortunes. They had a big series against the first-place Cardinals at Wrigley Field, and I stayed off the Internet Friday and Saturday. The Cubs won both games. On Sunday, I "relapsed," and the Cubs lost the third game of the series in extra innings. It's ridiculous, because the Cubs have more talent than anyone in their division, and they would be leading the division by 10 games if they'd been allowed to play to win.

I know this is hard to believe, but what I'm alleging is that certain players are required to deliberately screw up to influence the outcome of a game, and their lives depend on keeping quiet about it.


Before you dismiss my allegations as the ravings of a lunatic, check this out. Brian Tuohy was written a book about the fixing of professional sporting events called "The Fix Is In." His web site is here: http://www.thefixisin.net/

College sports is just as big a business as professional sports, so it's clearly within the realm of possibility that some college games are fixed for whatever reason. One blatant example that comes to mind is the defeat of the Kentucky men's basketball team in the NCAA Tournament this year. We're talking about a team whose entire starting five were drafted by the NBA, some in the first round (or was it all five, I can't remember).

The motive for having Kentucky take a dive? Coach John Calipari was already tainted by NCAA violations at his previous school, Memphis. And with all the Kentucky players leaving early to join the NBA, the NCAA might have felt it would cast college basketball in a bad light to have Kentucky go all the way. Why not engineer a Cinderella story like the Butler Bulldogs instead?

I could write an entire book about my observations from the last few years, including Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman fumbling the snap in the Super Bowl and throwing interceptions to help Indianapolis win, but I think you get the idea.

If sporting events can be engineered by the NFL and the NCAA, they can certainly be influenced by the men who run those organizations and every other corporation in the world -- the Illuminati.

P.S. After I posted this on Aug. 1, the Cubs got clobbered by Milwaukee in their next game the following night, 18-1, and they gave up five runs in both the fourth and fifth innings. Here was Milwaukee's line score for the first six innings: 000 551.

Since I was born in 1955, I interpreted this to mean that this disaster was choreographed specifically for me in response to my blog post, especially since the Brewers also had 26 hits. I was married on 6-26-76 in a satanic ritual (666), and they often use the number 26 in their psychological warfare campaign aginst me, discussed elsewhere on this blog. (See "The Fugitive -- From a Satanic Cult")