The rogue ref’s solicitor can neither confirm nor deny Tim Donaghy — sentenced to 15 months in what his wife hopes is a country club prison — is writing a book. Either way, it’s a bad time for Judith Reagan to be out of the publishing business.

Though Donaghy’s days officiating in the Association are most certainly over, perhaps the fledgling Premier Basketball League might offer him a gig once he’s paid his debt to David Stern society?  There’s generally not a Vegas line on games between the Montreal Sasquatch and Vermont Frost Heaves, though with the added visibility a Donaghy hire would surely bring, perhaps that’s something to aim for.

Not to diminish the seriousness of Donaghy’s crimes, but Kwame Brown’s been stealing money for years and the Pistons just rewarded him with a new $8 million deal