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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno State hoops fans whitethorn beryllium feeling déjà vu as 3 players are accused of betting connected sports, including 2 successful games they played in.
The squad made national headlines erstwhile the LA Times and Fresno Bee reported 2 players, Chris Herren and Dominick Young, were "point shaving" successful 5 to 7 games.
The March 1997 communicative claimed the players were fixed jewelry and paid $1,000 to $2,000 per game.
The nonfiction cited unnamed bookies arsenic the sources.
One of Young's attorneys said the accusations were not credible.
"What you're doing is you're taking an anonymous, amerciable bookie, and that bookie is saying helium oregon she, the bookie has a reliable source, lad that would beryllium similar maine going to the prisoners and asking them what they deliberation astir the sheriff. Is that a reliable source?" 1 of Young's attorneys successful 1997, Mike Idiart, said.
The allegations surfaced arsenic Action News anchor Dale Yurong was covering the dogs astatine the WAC tournament.
He was capable to drawback Coach Tarkanian up of their loss.
"For them to tally an nonfiction similar that erstwhile it is each innuendos and rumors is perfectly sick," Tarkanian told Yurong.
"I retrieve him saying that helium didn't judge the allegations archetypal of each and that if immoderate of his players were progressive successful point-shaving, past helium would halt coaching," Yurong recalled astir that day.
"Well, helium went connected to manager 5 much years."
Two days aft the nonfiction came out, Young held a property league to support himself.
"It is untrue and I americium shocked and aggravated that I indispensable basal present successful beforehand of you contiguous to contradict thing arsenic unspeakable arsenic constituent shaving," Young said successful the presser.
Herren besides said helium was guiltless of immoderate wrongdoing.
After an investigation, a national expansive assemblage did not find impervious of the allegations.
Neither subordinate was ever suspended and Herren went connected to play successful the NBA.
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