The FBI's Pursuit of Wilt Chamberlain's Alleged Gambling

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Celtics247.com found this 9/1/2007 on myespn.go.com [flag]
A while ago, I decided to do a FOIA request of Wilt Chamberlain. The main reason I wanted to do it? Someone showed me this cool website which makes FOIA requests of dead people pretty easy. Chamberlain seemed like he was as likely as anyone to have an interesting FBI file. It came in the mail yesterday. (And, I later learned, the whole thing was online the whole time.) What you'll find as ... [link]

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Published 9/1/2007 by FLCeltsFan at Celtics247.com
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Published 9/1/2007 by perkisabeast at perkisabeast.com Blog
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The guilt for Wilt the Stilt: Chamberlain had a gambling problem
Published 9/1/2007 by Jon Burkett at Passion and Pride
... With this summer’s scandal of gambling in the NBA, previous ties to gambling have been revisited and further examined.  I clicked over to True Hoop today to find this story about Wilt Chamberlain’s history with gambling.  If Wilt would have kept his nose clean, I have no doubt he would have unequivocally been the best player to ever play the game.  As it turned out, that claim was disputed because of Bill Russell’s successes against him with the Celtics and somebody named Jordan who came to dominate in a later era. ...

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