It’s tough to get a handle on who first said or wrote or sang or dreamt the phase: “That’s just the tip of the iceberg.”

Some say it dates all the way back to Geoffrey Chaucer, although I find it hard to believe anybody of this earth could translate into proper English anything old Geoff wrote. He made Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” read like “Peanuts.”

Unfortunately, we have come up with nothing better, hence the worn-out-but-still-appropriate “iceberg.”

I mention it now because of the latest scandal to shake the sporting world. The NBA is involved. And it’s a bad one. The words “mafia” and gambling are attached to it like a black mole found on your butt. When was the last time you really heard or paid attention to “mafia?” When you heard Clemenza order, “Lea

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