Art & Commerce: Sorry To Say, It's So

Say it ain’t so, Joe,” has, 88 years later, given way to, “Say it ain’t so, Tim.” That’s the time that’s passed between Joe Jackson’s Black Sox scandal and Tim Donaghy’s zebra shirt scandal. In between, there have been many other “Say it ain’t so’s,” including “Say it ain’t so, Sherman White,” “Say it ain’t so, Jack Molinas” and “Say it ain’t so, Tony Jackson” in college basketball. In Jackson’s case, it really wasn’t so, but he got nailed for failing to report that someone tried to make it so by offering him money to shave points.

The NFL also had “Say it ain’t so, Alex Karras” and “Say it ain’t so, Paul Hornung.”