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Today in Sports - Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy pleads guilty to felony charges for cash payoffs
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Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy has pleaded guilty to felony charges tied to taking cash payoffs from gamblers and betting on games he officiated, in a scandal that shook the league and raised questions about the sport’s integrity. The plea is noted in a sports-history roundup that also recalls major results across golf, boxing, Formula One, tennis, baseball, and basketball. The timeline includes Tiger Woods’ one-stroke PGA Championship win in 1999, Damon Hill’s father-son Formula One victory at the 1993 Hungarian Grand Prix, and Felix Hernandez’s 2012 perfect game for the Seattle Mariners.
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