Hometown Boy

Starting to see stories noting that allegedly crooked NBA ref Tim Donaghy was a local boy. Cardinal O’Hara grad and Villanova alum. As if those credentials shouldn’t have set off alarm bells, there is the glaring fact that he is a Delco boy, the biggest mark against him.

Still, in the small world department it turns out that I have friends that know Donaghy as he used to live in West Chester. They say that Stern and the league failed utterly in their due diligence, bordering on willful negligence.

My friends tell me that Donaghy was a notorious hot head. Getting into fights with his neighbors, driving a golf cart into the water at Radley Run, etc. They all say he was certifiable. So how did the league not know that one of their refs was unstable? Shouldn’t a simple background check about whether he actually played varsity baseball at ‘Nova set off some alarm bells about the guys veracity?