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Cheating the spread : gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball / Albert J. Figone.

Title
Cheating the spread : gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball / Albert J. Figone.
Author
Figone, Al
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2012.

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Book/textRequest in advance GV717 .F54 2012Off-site

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Series Statement
Sport and society
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Sports betting > United States
  • Football > Betting > United States
  • Basketball > Betting > United States
  • College sports > Economic aspects > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Creating a game for gamblers : the rise of college basketball -- The golden age of gambling : college basketball in the postwar years -- Stinking it up : the 1951 college basketball gambling scandal -- Do no evil, see no evil, and hear no evil : coaching and presiding over college basketball scandals in the 1950s -- "Do you have anything for me?" : gambling scandals in college football from the Big Three to Bear Bryant -- College basketball's incurable disease : the 1961 basketball scandal -- Winning in smaller ways : the 1978 Boston College scandal -- Student-athletes and campus bookies : basketball scandals of the 1980s and 1990s -- A continuing nightmare : gambling and fixing in college football, 1990-2010 -- Afterword: When the cost of winning at all costs is too high.
ISBN
  • 9780252037283 (hardback)
  • 9780252078750 (paperback)
  • 9780252094453 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2012037767
OCLC
  • 788269037
  • SCSB-12568823
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library