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The dirty college game : corruption, gambling and the pursuit of money in NCAA football and basketball
- Title
- The dirty college game : corruption, gambling and the pursuit of money in NCAA football and basketball / Al Figone.
- Author
- Figone, Al
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
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Details
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.
- Contents
- The historical symbiosis between corruption and sports -- Changing mass media viewing demographics and attitudes toward sports gambling -- Kentucky Football, 1962: scandal and cover-up -- The Butts and Bryant phone calls, 1962: more than social conversations -- The University of New Mexico gambling scandal of 1979: "As bad as it ever gets!" -- SMU and UNLV scandals: boosters hijacking college programs -- UCLA and Michigan: urban boosterism and paying athletes with laundered money -- Organized crime and sports: "I'll break your legs. You'll never play again!"
- Call Number
- JFD 20-751
- ISBN
- 9781476671123
- 1476671125
- 9781476634814 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019027024
- 40029373650
- OCLC
- 1107172390
- Author
- Figone, Al, author.
- Title
- The dirty college game : corruption, gambling and the pursuit of money in NCAA football and basketball / Al Figone.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
- Description
- vii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.
- Summary
- Commercial aspects of college football and basketball during the mid- to late 20th century were dominated by a few "get rich quick" schools. Though the NCAA was responsible for controlling such facets of college sports, the organization was unwilling and unable to control the excesses of the few who opposed the majority opinion. The result was a period of corruption, rules violations, unnecessary injuries and overspending. These events led to the formation of larger conferences, richer bowl games and rules intended to preserve the "money-making" value of college football and basketball. This book explores gambling, academic fraud, illegal booster activity and the single-minded pursuit of television contracts in college sports, as well as the NCAA's involvement-or lack thereof-in such cases -- Provided by publisher.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029373650
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-751