The Ritzville Adams County Journal - Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887

Hopefully, some of you will remember some of the issues college and professional sports had with gamblers and gambling in general. There was the college basketball point shaving scandal of the 1950s, Paul Hornung’s one year suspension from the NFL for gambling, Pete Rose’s banishment for life from Major League baseball for gambling on baseball while managing a Major League team. Of course the biggest baseball gambling debacle was the Chicago ‘Black Sox’ scandal that banned 8 members of the Chicago White Sox for throwing the 1919 World Series. Want to know more then find the movie �...