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The Fix Is In: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR Paperback – April 1, 2010

by Brian Tuohy (Author)
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Professional sports in America: it's all about fair play and the goal of winning championships. At least that's the spin. But could it be a massive showbiz operation filled with greedy owners, crooked referees, and coddled players, all with the unstated goal of grabbing as much money as possible?

Author Brian Tuohy provides a full-sourced saga of the corruption that has infected the storied histories of the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, and NASCAR.

With reality obscured by a complacent and often complicit sports media, The Fix Is In shines a light on a hidden history of clandestine arrangements between television networks and sports leagues, all against a background of drinking, drugging, gambling and crime.

Finally, here's a book that unflinchingly examines the sordid underbelly of the American sports industry.
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"Tuohy does make some sensible points about sports as an entertainment business, eager to maximize profits at whatever cost." - Mark Yost, The Wall Street Journal.

"This book is a clear eye-opener. Author Brian Tuohy peels back the Astroturf to show readers how pro sports have manipulated and hooked fans...The Fix Is In shouldn't be missed." - Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez

"Tuohy argues his case forcefully...Even if there are no shades of gray in [his] perspective, he certainly finds enough blackness in misconduct and even Mob-controlled criminality...the smoke is so thick that the fires must be numerous and spread across the entire playing field of professional sports." - Dave Luhrssen, The Shepherd Express

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Brian Tuohy is recognized as a scholarly authority by the U.S. Supreme Court and is the author of Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing and the FBI; A Season in the Abyss: Sports Gambling vs. the NFL's Integrity; The Fix is Still In: More Corruption and Conspiracies the Pro Sports Leagues Don't Want You to Know About; and Disaster Government: National Emergencies, Continuity of Government and You. He has been published in Sports Illustrated, Vice Sports and Sports on Earth among other outlets, and has been a guest on over 200 radio programs and podcasts including Coast to Coast AM, the Dan Patrick Show, Alex Jones and The Stuff They Don't Want You to Know.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Feral House; First Edition (April 1, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932595813
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932595819
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
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Recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court as a scholarly authority on game fixing in sports, Brian Tuohy is not beholden to the corporate sports media world. He is the author of the highly controversial sports books The Fix Is In: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and NASCAR; Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing, and the FBI; A Season in the Abyss: Sports Gambling vs. the NFL's Integrity; and his most recent, The Fix is Still In: More Corruption and Conspiracies the Pro Sports Leagues Don't Want You to Know About.

Tuohy is an in-demand radio guest, having appeared on over 200 radio programs & podcasts across the United States and Canada, including the nationally syndicated programs the Dan Patrick Show, Coast to Coast AM, Fox Sports' Chris Myers Interviews, JT The Brick, The Brian Kenny Show on NBC Sports Radio, the Steve Czaban Show, and the Alex Jones Show (Infowars).

Some of Tuohy's other sports-related writing can be found in Sports Illustrated, at Vice Sports, and at Sports On Earth as well as his own popular website thefixisin.net. He is also the author of the book Disaster Government: National Emergencies, Continuity of Government, and You which is based on over three years of research into the federal government's once Top Secret files.

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Jay-T
5.0 out of 5 stars Say It Ain't So...But It Is
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2011
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Thanks to my Dad (thanks Dad), I grew up a big professional sports fan. There was nothing more thrilling and wonderous for me than driving to NYC to see the Mets play at Shea Stadium. The players were my heroes. As I grew older, however, I began to notice the games seemed a bit too scripted, overly dramatic, poorly officiated and just plain unreal. I felt the "fix was in" for the first time when the Giants fumbled away a game (that game) to the Eagles in 1978. Ironically it is not a game that critics have considered fixed. I've continued to watch and attend sports events with a wary eye, though I still root hard for my teams. Then came this book. Wow. I knew pro and bigtime college sports were a bit crooked but this well-researched and well-written book puts it all into perspective, supported by something called facts and convincing evidence. While I am riveted by the copy I am saddened by the reality of it all. I collect video games of 1970s/80s sporting events but I watch the games now with the hope the games were not fixed. I look for bad calls, I look for odd plays. Say It Ain't So...but it is. This book does a great job of laying out the cold, hard truth. Through it all, however, as the author points out, the public will continue to watch. Hey, that's entertainment.
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Rob
5.0 out of 5 stars Very compelling - the elephant in the room that the media is not mentioning
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2011
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As a long time sports follower, I have seen a few too many "coincidences" to ignore them, which prompted me to buy this book and I was not disappointed. While many of the journalists who reviewed this book try to say that the author does not have evidence to support the claim, that is not the case at all. He is simply presenting what is known and how to view the league from the perspective of a CEO running a company trying to maximize profits. When looking at the league through that lens and seeing the many "coincidences" (that he suggests may be fixes) that have happened in sports, it makes one wonder if there are just too many of them. Also, remember that, as he said, many of the sportswriters and journalists MAKE A LIVING reporting on sports and they will certainly not get the best interviews and access to players if they support ANYTHING that is not good PR for the league.

It is certainly a very interesting read and one that I would recommend, especially if you have followed sports for a long time.
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Money
4.0 out of 5 stars Well researched and thought provoking
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2015
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I've believed sports were rigged on some level for quite a long time. The NBA with its favoritism toward star players, and the NFL (particularly the last 10 years or so) with so many close Super Bowls after years of blow outs just seemed bogus. But I figured it was just conspiracy theory stuff and probably just a feeling I had, not something quantifiable. I stumbled across this book and lo and behold, there's evidence that actually supports my feelings. The book goes over major stories of corruption for all of the big four leagues plus NASCAR. The main takeaways, without giving much of the book away are:

- Leagues do not promise to be about the contests, but rather are an exhibition of athletic skill with no promise that officiating is above board.

- Leagues favor certain outcomes and will do everything they can to influence beneficial outcomes for those leagues.

- Owners from some of the oldest franchises come from all sorts of sketchy backgrounds, but one thing that is common among many is their love of gambling. It would seem a conflict of interest but in fact the leagues are completely in bed with Vegas and organized crime.

The book is a great reminder that sports are simply another form of entertainment, designed to take our money in a variety of ways and consume a good portion of our time watching them. The book is perhaps too lengthy with the examples of various corruption, and some of the editing isn't that great. But overall, it's a pretty good book and has taken a good portion of my interest in sports away. I'll admit it was already on the downward slide- football and fighting sports are just too brutal. I won't say I'll completely give up watching all sports, but I definitely don't plan on watching the NFL or NBA again.
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AndrewJ. Mueske
5.0 out of 5 stars Great explanation on professional sports
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2017
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I first heard of this guy from Coast to Coast, then again on Infowars. Say what you want about those shows but I remember plenty of times my father watching a game he thought was in the bag with his team only to watch them constantly make mistake after mistake. It didn't even look like the same team. Now we know why. Great expose on the "entertainment industry" we call sports.
Never again will I watch another game of anything professional again and most certainly will not support with my money.
The connection of big money and big egos and black mail and bribery linked to mob ties explains this social justice warrior mentality we now see so prevalent.
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Jonathan Walliser
3.0 out of 5 stars Worth a read but take some of it with a grain of salt
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2019
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Good info is here but the conclusions may be far fetched at times. I don't like arena sports much and this book helps me understand why
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palindrome13
5.0 out of 5 stars Changed the way I think about sports
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2014
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Let me start that I am not much into conspiracy theories. However, after reading Brian Tuohy's excellent The Fix Is In, I am not so sure. Tuohy's makes the case that professional sports are too big and make too much money to be left to chance. Sports are just are version of "Bread and Circuses" from Roman times. Ratings are hugely important because that drives revenue. The NBA is probably the biggest culprit. Ever wonder why the Lakers and Celtics (now the Heat) are always in the finals? They get better ratings because they have the "superstars". Wonder why Michael Jordan never got fouls called on him? Wonder why the Knicks won the lottery for Patrick Ewing? That's what the commissioner David Stern wanted. A very good book that will make you think.
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Alexander Brown
2.0 out of 5 stars I really wanted to enjoy this, but...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2023
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I wanted to enjoy this book, I really did.
I’m a UK-born Pittsburgh Steelers fan who’s been convinced the outcomes of NFL games are predetermined since the 2017 Super Bowl – you know, the one where long-time have-nots the Atlanta Falcons mysteriously blew a 28-3 third quarter lead to the financial golden goose that the New England Patriots have become – but had started to smell a rat quite a while before that. I mean, isn’t it a bit odd that league poster-boys Ray Lewis, Peyton Manning, John Elway and Jerome Bettis all mysteriously won championships in their final game, with Bettis even doing so in his hometown in what is widely considered one of the worst officiated games in NFL History? Isn’t it a little convenient that, the year after a poll voted the 2008 New York Vs New England Super Bowl the greatest of all time, the 2011 finale ended with those same two teams, producing the exact same result in a game that was itself almost a play-by-play reproduction of its predecessor? I could go on, but I’m sure you get the idea.

Sadly, this book just does not live up to expectations, or even basic publishing standards. I want to start by saying I read it on a Kindle, and stopped reporting the obvious transcription errors about 10% of the way through, because I was spending more time reporting than reading. I’d like to think this is just an issue with scanning software, but it genuinely damaged the experience for me.

The next issue for me is the inaccurate reporting, and general bias towards sensationalism. I’m going to share a few examples of what I mean, all of which relate to the NFL as, of the five sports examined, it’s the one I’m most knowledgeable about.

1) “Just prior to his rookie year in 2000, Jamal Lewis of the Cleveland Browns used a cell phone to set up a drug deal”

Lewis was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2000, and played for them until 2007. He won the Super Bowl with them in 2001, the Offensive Player of the Year award and the league’s rushing yards title in 2003. He then transferred to the Cleveland Browns where he had two solid, but unremarkable seasons and a third cut short by injury, after which he retired. What I’m getting at here is that, presenting him as being “of the Cleveland Browns” does not tally with how most people would think of him. It’s not technically inaccurate as he did play for them, but it leaves out a lot of and is very sloppy writing.

Additionally, the facts of this are debatable. In his excellent book “Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today’s NFL” John Feinstein is given access to sit-in on everything the Ravens did for an entire year, which happened to be the year Lewis was prosecuted for the aforementioned drug deal. Feinstein, having behind-the-scenes access to then team president Dick Caas, who oversaw handling of the prosecution from the team’s perspective, explains out that Lewis was the victim of a sting operation designed to borderline entrap famous young people, particularly athletes, and that Lewis’ involvement was little more than allowing an attractive woman to use his phone while she was trying to seduce him. As is often the case, the truth probably fits somewhere in between the two accounts, but when you have a Steelers fan defending a rat-birds player, there’s something very wrong!

2) “Denver Broncos star wide receiver Brandon Marshall was arrested on three separate occasions in the year between March 2007 and 2008. His three-game suspension for violating the leagues personal conduct policy was lowered to just one game.

Again, while technically correct, in his desire to paint NFL players as lawless thugs who get away with anything because of their status Tuohy ignores the wider context – Marshall was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in 2011, has been receiving treatment for since then and since understanding his condition has become a mental health charity advocate. Oh, and one of the arrests was for making an illegal lane-change while driving very slightly over the limit, hardly something that requires a SWAT team!

3) “Other teams, such as the 1980s Oakland Raiders, the 1990s Buffalo Bills and the 2000s Philadelphia Eagles could also be labelled as dynasty teams. Though these teams failed to win Super Bowl after Super Bowl, each had great success over a four-to-six year period of time, much like their dynasty counterparts.”

Crikey! Where to even start with this one… Okay, the Raiders played in two Super Bowls during the 1980’s, winning both, so pretty much everything about them in this statement is simply wrong.

Secondly, the 2000s Eagles failed to win 10 successive Super Bowls between 2000 and 2010, but the problem is they only played in one Super Bowl during that period. By that logic, you could say that every team in the NFL bar the Patriots (who won three in a four year period during that time) and the Steelers (who on two in a four year period during that time). Linking to the Bills four Super Bowl losses in a row feels as though Tuohy is trying to suggest the Eagles reached several Super Bowls only to fall at the last hurdle. When they only even made it to that hurdle once.

I could keep going with the examples, but I hope you see what I’m saying here: The subject matter is genuinely interesting, but the way the evidence is presented feels like the book equivalent of a lawyer asking “Have you had an accident or a fall at work that wasn’t your fault? Call us for a no-win / no-fee consultation!” It cheapens something which, if addressed correctly, could have been great.
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Don Davidson
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW
Reviewed in Canada on June 29, 2010
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As a longtime sports fan who had slowly been beginning to suspect that something fishy is going on, I was very eager to read this book when I heard about it. It does not disappoint. It' A terrific book loaded with evidence that is difficult to deny. You'll NEVER look at pro sports the same way again after reading this. This book not only provides compelling evidence which proves that game-fixing happens, but how bloody EASY it is to do it! Once you see how it happens you'll wonder why you hadn't figured it out before. I am now convinced... basketball, baseball, etc. are absolutely as fake as wrestling. At least wrestling has the guts to be honest with you that it's all predetermined.
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Vivian Lopez
5.0 out of 5 stars Great gift for a sport lover!
Reviewed in Canada on August 19, 2019
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Bought this for my sport addicted friend, he can't stop reading it!
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D. Opperwall
4.0 out of 5 stars Changed my perspective
Reviewed in Canada on October 12, 2013
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This is a really nice book on the topic, and just about the only thing like it that I've run into. A solid run-down of lots of sports fixing over time, and a really clear assessment of why, how and when fixes happen in modern North American sports. One is left with the clear picture that sports in North America are probably fair most of the time, but fixing (especially point shaving) is also much more common than anyone might normally expect (especially in the NFL and NBA).

There were a few moments were I felt Tuohy overstated his case. This came mostly when he starts to get more specific about particular games and fixes at the end of the text. He makes an excellent case for the nature of fixing in general, but it is much harder to prove it in a specific case, and it shows. Readers may disagree with him on some of these points, and Tuohy could have been a little better about expressing that his theories on specific games or controversies are not necessarily proven. Still, his discussion of the basic framework of fixing is really eye-opening and informative.

Tuohy's book has made me a happier sports fan. I now take the major sports leagues a lot less seriously, knowing how corrupt they often are. But, I still like sports and I still watch them just as much as before. Now I just enjoy these sports for what they are - good entertainment, not necessarily fair competition - I don't like the corruption, but it doesn't get to me the way it used to.
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Rwhar
5.0 out of 5 stars great info
Reviewed in Canada on July 18, 2019
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glad someone had the balls to right this
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