“Just money, just business.” Battista told Griffin. He documented a 78% Donaghy win rate and paying him $201,000 for his “tips,” just a cog in Battista’s tentacles, which reached Asia, Europe and Vegas. The scandal architect, Battista was addicted to various pills and cocaine, yet he was the straight-shooter, as reams of evidence and others corroborated his most-minute details. One more incident, and Stern would sack Donaghy.īattista heard Donaghy make racist NBA comments. NBA commissioner David Stern kept Donaghy from working the second round of the 2005 playoffs because of the “sheer volume” (Stern’s words) of such reports. “Nobody wanted to golf with him,” Minutella said. Martino said Donaghy cheated on tests, too, at Villanova.ĭust-ups with neighbors (one who called Donaghy “a flaming maniac”), an assault on a mail carrier and the West Chester, Pennsylvania, mayor noting Donaghy’s “very aggressive personality” also were filed.ĭonaghy once slipped a dead, maggot-infested bird into fellow golfer John Minutella’s bag.
Griffin documented how Donaghy admitted to getting into Villanova, in part, by having someone take his SAT for him.
