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... According to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as ESPN reported, "Twenty men have been charged in a point-shaving scheme involving 39 college basketball players on 17 NCAA Division I teams, leading to 29 games being fixed."

Anyone who has seen the rise of legalized sports betting, how both professional teams and colleges have embraced the billion-dollar companies making bets on games, and the ease with which players, coaches, and officials can be sucked into these gambling rings, is not surprised by this latest scandal at all.

The Athletic:

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Shane Hennen and Marves Fairley, two men who were indicted in a federal district in New York in October, worked with Blakeney and a number of others to manipulate college basketball games during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons, according to an indictment brought by the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prosecutors said Hennen and Fairley worked with others to recruit college players with bribes and then asked them to help fix games so their teams would not cover the spread — the number of points by which a sportsbook predicted a team would lose its game. The players, prosecutors say, were offered between $10,000 to $30,000 for each game to be a part of their gambling ring.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held a press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, and she was on fire, especially when it came to answering one "journalist" from The Hill. Let's just say he had a question about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, but he kind of already had the answers — or, at least, his version of them — prepared in his head, and Leavitt didn't let it go.

Leavitt called on Niall Stanage, who asked: "Earlier, you were just defending ICE agents generally....Secretary [Kristi] Noem spoke to the media and she said, among other things, that they are doing everything correctly — 32 people died in ICE custody last year, 170 US citizens were detained by ICE, and Renee Good was shot in the head and killed by an ICE agent. How does that equate to them doing everything correctly?"

"Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?" Leavitt responded

"Oh, you're asking my opinion," Stanage replied, seemingly caught off guard by the question. 

When Leavitt confirmed that she was, indeed, asking his opinion, he said confidently, "Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably." 

Wrong answer.

"Oh, okay, so you're a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion," she replied

"Well, what do you want me to do?" Stanage asked. But Leavitt would not be interrupted.

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Yeah, because you're a left-wing hack. You're not a reporter. You're posing in this room as a journalist, and it's so clear by the premise of your question. And you and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you're a journalist, you shouldn't even be sitting in that seat.

 But you're pretending like you're a journalist, but you're a left-wing activist. And the question that you just raised and your answer proves your bias. You should be reporting on the facts.
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You should be reporting on the cases. Do you have the numbers of how many American citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens who ICE is trying to remove from this country? I bet you don't. I bet you didn't even read up on those stories. I bet you never even read about Laken Riley or Jocelyn Nungaray, or all of the innocent Americans who were killed at the hands of illegal aliens in this country.

And the brave men and women of ICE are doing everything in their power to remove those  heinous individuals and make our communities safer. And shame on people like you in the media who have a crooked view and have a biased view, and pretend like you're a  real, honest journalist.

... hooded thugs ... - Wearing masks to hinder doxxing their families.

... roam our streets ... - ICE and CBP officers search for specific persons rather than "roaming" randomly.

... with automatic weapons ... - Are ICE and CPB officers carrying long guns, automatic or semi-automatic? That seems unlikely, given their being confronted in close quarters where a long gun would be clumsy and too easily grabbed. Renee Good was shot by a pistol, BTW, as can be seen in various videos.

 kentuck. you're being played

...assaulting our citizens ... - Self-defense is not assault.

... anonymously, with hoods and no identification ... - ICE and CBP are not stooped enough to expose their families to being doxxed and assault/vandalized/harassed. They are not anonymous - ICE and CBP know who each officer is - just not exposed to Prog doxxers.

Killing people in cold blood - Renee Good was shot in self-defense.
 kentuck. you're being played


All true and easily verified. Hey, kentuck, can you verify your claims. It's exactly the kind of bullshit your "acceptable" news sources provide to anyone who'll repeat it. If they call you on it, it's on you. Your writers are already on the next thing.



Now they are raiding the homes of reporters. - This was an FBI search, with warrant - not ICE or CBP - for evidence in a case about leaking of secret documents.

Speaking of myself, I have strong views, obviously, but I will listen, and if someone has facts I do not, I'm persuadable.