Cheating the spread: gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball
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| spelling | Figone, Albert J. Verfasser aut Cheating the spread gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball Albert J. Figone Urbana University of Illinois Press 2012 1 online resource (xv, 196 pages) illustrations txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Sport and society "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 interviews, Albert J. Figone finds that game rigging has been pervasive and nationwide throughout most of the sports' history. The insidious practice has spread to implicate not only bookies and unscrupulous gamblers but also college administrators, athletic organizers, coaches, fellow students, and the athletes themselves. Naming the players, coaches, gamblers, and go-betweens involved, Figone discusses numerous college basketball and football games reported to have been fixed and describes the various methods used to gain unfair advantage, inside information, or undue profit. His survey of college football includes early years of gambling on games between established schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Harvard; Notre Dame's All-American halfback and skilled gambler George Gipp; and the 1962 allegations of insider information between Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and former Georgia coach James Wallace "Wally" Butts; and many other recent incidents. Notable events in basketball include the 1951 scandal involving City College of New York and six other schools throughout the East Coast and the Midwest; the 1961 point-shaving incident that put a permanent end to the Dixie Classic tournament; the 1978 scheme in which underworld figures recruited and bribed several Boston College players to ensure a favorable point spread; the 1994-95 Northwestern scandal in which players bet against their own team; and other recent examples of compromised gameplay and gambling"-- SPORTS & RECREATION / History bisacsh GAMES / Gambling / Sports bisacsh EDUCATION / Higher bisacsh SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects bisacsh SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays bisacsh SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference bisacsh TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports bisacsh Basketball / Betting fast College sports / Economic aspects fast Football / Betting fast Sports betting fast Sports betting United States Football Betting United States Basketball Betting United States College sports Economic aspects United States Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780252037283 0252037286 |
| spellingShingle | Figone, Albert J. 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 interviews, Albert J. Figone finds that game rigging has been pervasive and nationwide throughout most of the sports' history. The insidious practice has spread to implicate not only bookies and unscrupulous gamblers but also college administrators, athletic organizers, coaches, fellow students, and the athletes themselves. Naming the players, coaches, gamblers, and go-betweens involved, Figone discusses numerous college basketball and football games reported to have been fixed and describes the various methods used to gain unfair advantage, inside information, or undue profit. His survey of college football includes early years of gambling on games between established schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Harvard; Notre Dame's All-American halfback and skilled gambler George Gipp; and the 1962 allegations of insider information between Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and former Georgia coach James Wallace "Wally" Butts; and many other recent incidents. Notable events in basketball include the 1951 scandal involving City College of New York and six other schools throughout the East Coast and the Midwest; the 1961 point-shaving incident that put a permanent end to the Dixie Classic tournament; the 1978 scheme in which underworld figures recruited and bribed several Boston College players to ensure a favorable point spread; the 1994-95 Northwestern scandal in which players bet against their own team; and other recent examples of compromised gameplay and gambling"-- SPORTS & RECREATION / History bisacsh GAMES / Gambling / Sports bisacsh EDUCATION / Higher bisacsh SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects bisacsh SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays bisacsh SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference bisacsh TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports bisacsh Basketball / Betting fast College sports / Economic aspects fast Football / Betting fast Sports betting fast Sports betting United States Football Betting United States Basketball Betting United States College sports Economic aspects United States |
| title | Cheating the spread gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball |
| title_auth | Cheating the spread gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball |
| title_exact_search | Cheating the spread gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball |
| title_full | Cheating the spread gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball Albert J. Figone |
| title_fullStr | Cheating the spread gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball Albert J. Figone |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cheating the spread gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball Albert J. Figone |
| title_short | Cheating the spread |
| title_sort | cheating the spread gamblers point shavers and game fixers in college football and basketball |
| title_sub | gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball |
| topic | SPORTS & RECREATION / History bisacsh GAMES / Gambling / Sports bisacsh EDUCATION / Higher bisacsh SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects bisacsh SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays bisacsh SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference bisacsh TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports bisacsh Basketball / Betting fast College sports / Economic aspects fast Football / Betting fast Sports betting fast Sports betting United States Football Betting United States Basketball Betting United States College sports Economic aspects United States |
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