2007 年夏天，NBA 裁判因对自己执法的比赛下注而遭到调查，这一新闻引发了媒体风暴，让 NBA、FBI 和体育迷陷入危机。这名裁判就是蒂姆·多纳吉。故事的开始和结束镜头并非围绕他展开，而是讲述了从费城郊区小镇的博彩公司，到臭名昭著的纽约犯罪家族和世界各地的体育赌博黑社会的中饱私囊之路。这是第一次，全部三名共犯都讲述了他们的参与过程 — 不出所料，他们的说法并不一致。片中包括对蒂姆·多纳吉、汤米·马蒂诺、吉米·巴蒂斯塔（“绵羊”）和联邦调查局特工菲尔·斯卡拉、多纳吉的律师约翰·劳罗、多纳吉的前妻金·施特鲁普·多纳吉等人的访谈。

A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.

Monogram's Whip Wilson western series was in its final year of existence when Lawless Cowboys hit the screen. Set in the contemporary West, the film casts Wilson as a Texas Ranger on the trail of a crooked gambling ring.