{"id":22537,"date":"2012-02-24T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=22537"},"modified":"2012-02-24T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:51:32","slug":"the-ten-2242012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=22537","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 2\/24\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17594\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-TEN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17594 \" title=\"The-TEN\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-TEN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TEN<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Conspiracy Day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(\u201cThe Ten\u201d is not a top ten, but ten items worth being included in The TEN)<\/p>\n<p>1.) The NBA rigged the 1985 lottery so the New York Knicks could draft Georgetown\u2019s Patrick Ewing.<\/p>\n<p>2.) Red Auerbach and the Boston Celtics paid to have Magic Johnson\u2019s 1991 blood test show positive for HIV.<\/p>\n<p>3.) The NFL hated Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis so much it employed the \u201cTuck Rule\u201d on Tom Brady\u2019s celebrated fumble in the 2001 playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>4.) Temple City football always wins the coin flip.<\/p>\n<p>5.) NFL covered up \u201cSpygate\u201d because it wanted the New England Patriots&#8212;Patriots&#8212;to win the title the same season that 911 occurred.<\/p>\n<p>6.) Jude Oliva conjured up the windstorm last fall to delay, by one night, San Gabriel\u2019s semifinal match with San Dimas.<\/p>\n<p>7.) To ensure the league\u2019s success with revenue and high ratings, the NBA conspired to have only five teams qualify for the finals during the 1980\u2019s (Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Houston, &amp; Detroit).<\/p>\n<p>8.) Michigan star Chris Weber was paid off to throw the NCAA Finals against North Carolina in 1993. First by traveling (which wasn\u2019t called) and then calling timeout when the Wolverines had no timeouts remaining.<\/p>\n<p>9.) How come Arroyo always seems to have a quarterback?<\/p>\n<p>10.) What really happened to Pater Noster High School?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conspiracy Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22539,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions\/22539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}