Sports Legends Challenge, Presented by Absolute Poker, is Engaging in a Despicable Online “Marketing Campaign” Relying on Lies and Spam
July 2nd, 2009
This really isn’t my style. You have to push me pretty far to make me talk about this sort of thing in public, where I prefer to talk about it in private. But, I have had enough and people (from participants to sponsors) need to know about this.
Sports Legends Challenge is an upcoming poker tournament in the Bahamas. It is presented by Absolute Poker, and it has many noteworthy athletes attached to it, including Michael Strahan, Gale Sayers, Jerry West, Jim Brown, Ozzie Smith, Mike Ditka, Joe Namath, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Reggie Jackson, Julius Erving and more. Various professional poker players are also attached. I suspect that if they knew what I knew - some of them wouldn’t be.
I am so disgusted by what I have seen… I just can’t even describe it, so I am going to tell you what happened. I am going to leave out the real names of these people because I just don’t feel comfortable with that. But, I’d be happy to share those details with appropriate parties.
On May 28, I received an e-mail from someone with an e-mail address @sportslegendschallenge.com. We’ll call him Steve, so that this is easy to follow. Steve was asking if SportsForums.net was interested in affiliating with Sports Legends Challenge. Generally, we try not to associate closely with sites that have close ties to online gambling. So, I responded to him that same day, politely declining.
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