Cheating the spread : gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball /
"Delving into the history of gambling and corruption in intercollegiate sports, Cheating the Spread recounts all of the major gambling scandals in college football and basketball. Digging through court records, newspapers, government documents, and university archives and conducting private int...
| Основен автор: | Figone, Albert J. (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2012.
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| Серия: |
Sport and society.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=569504 |
Съдържание:
- ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Creating a Game for Gamblers: The Rise of College Basketball""; ""2. The Golden Age of Gambling: College Basketball in the Postwar Years""; ""3. Stinking It Up: The 1951 College Basketball Gambling Scandal""; ""4. Do No Evil, See No Evil, and Hear No Evil: Coaching and Presiding over College Basketball ""; ""5. “Do You Have Anything for Me?�: Gambling Scandals in College Football from the Big Three to Bear Bryant""
- ""6. College Basketball�s Incurable Disease: The 1961 Basketball Scandal""""7. Winning in Smaller Ways: The 1978 Boston College Scandal""; ""8. Student-Athletes and Campus Bookies: Basketball Scandals of the 1980s and 1990s""; ""9. A Continuing Nightmare: Gambling and Fixing in College Football, 1990�2010""; ""Afterword: When the Cost of Winning at All Costs Is Too High""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""