Numerous real-time data companies have recently emerged that provide monitoring services on betting markets. Sportradar, a firm with investors that includes billionaires Mark Cuban and Michael Jordan, has deals in place with the NFL, NBA, NHL, and NASCAR.<\/p>\n
Sportradar’s current contracts predominantly deal with real-time scores, statistics, and play-by-play data, but should PASPA be overturned and sports gambling expanded, the leagues might add on the company’s monitoring services.<\/p>\n
“We monitor odds movements and patterns worldwide to identify suspicious activities,” Sportradar says of its Fraud Detection System.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If the NBA had such a program in place in the 2000s when Donaghy was altering the sports betting outcomes of games for himself and outside bookies, the patterns of late-minute calls being made by the referee might have been detected sooner.<\/p>\n
Regarding his latest charges, Donaghy’s lawyer maintains the former NBA official did not assault nor threaten anyone. But according to the police affidavit, when the homeowner asked what was going on, Donaghy warned the man that if he came any closer, he was going to be hit with the hammer.<\/p>\n
He was taken into custody, and later released on $5,000 bail. He is due in court on January 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who admitted to betting on professional basketball games he officiated, has been charged with felony aggravated assault in Florida after allegedly threatening a man with a hammer. The incident occurred Monday night after Donaghy went to a home where he believed his 19-year-daughter was using illegal drugs. He got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":66157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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