[FONT=Gisha][COLOR=black]Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like below.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT=Gisha][COLOR=black]The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Gisha][COLOR=black]The fifth would pay $1.[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Gisha][COLOR=black]The sixth would pay $3.[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Gisha][COLOR=black]The seventh would pay $7..[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Gisha][COLOR=black]The eighth would pay $12.[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Gisha][COLOR=black]The ninth would pay $18.[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Gisha][COLOR=black]The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT=Gisha][COLOR=black]The ten men drank in the bar every day and were quite happy with the arrangement. One day, the owner said, "Since you are all such good customers,...[/FONT][/COLOR]

The money man behind the Tim Donaghy betting scandal had a cute nickname for the disgraced former NBA referee.
"I called him the king. Elvis," Jimmy Battista told HBO's Bryant Gumbel in a segment on the network's Real Sports program that airs Tuesday . "Because nobody picked winners like he did. Nobody."



The relationship between Battista and Donaghy goes back to the 1980s when they attended Cardinal O'Hara. Earlier this decade, Battista, a professional gambler who also has had problems with drug addiction, befriended Donaghy when he learned the referee had a gambling problem.
"I know Timmy was betting on college and pro...