Toledo – Detroit Connection In Point-Shaving Scandal

At Least six Toledo athletes accepted money and gifts from two Detroit businessmen in a conspiracy to commit sports bribery case unveiled yesterday. The Detroit businessmen are Ghazi “Gary” Manni, 52, and Mitchell Kuram, 76. These two men paid money and gave gifts to Toledo athletes to influence the final score of a game, aka point-shaving. Six former Toledo athletes (3 basketball players, 3 football players) would make as little as $500 to participate in the scam.

Manni and Kuram were also named in a seperate indictment of fixing horse races in Florida. The two would pay the jockeys off to determine the finishing order of a race.

Interestingly, all three Toledo football players were running backs. Harvey “Scooter” McDougle, Adam Cuomo, and Quinton Broussard. Cuomo, 31, became the middle man, driving the younger players to Detroit to meet with Manni and Kuram. At these meetings, a number was proposed to the player to aid in making sure the pointspread would go their way.

Keith Triplett, Anton Currie, and Kashif Payne were the three basketball players named in the scandal.

All of the incidents were said to have taken place between December2004 and December 2006.

Is this something you think is going on everywhere and that these guys just got caught? Other incidents that come to mind are Luther Campbell placing a bounty on the head of a quarterback playing against Miami, and NBA refs who bet the games they were doing to win money. It inevitably is happening more than we know. We see these college athletes with diamonds the size of a grape in their ear after we hear how they had it so tough growing up with nothing. Common sense people.

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