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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/text | Request in advance | GV717 .F54 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Series Statement
- Sport and society
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- 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