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Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball
Albert J. Figone
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Description for Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball
Paperback. Discusses College sports' ignominious history of game fixing Series: Sport and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, 8 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WDP; WSJM; WSJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Sport and Society
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252078750
SKU
V9780252078750
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About Albert J. Figone
Albert J. Figone has seen sports from all sides. He is a professor emeritus of kinesiology and a former head baseball and assistant football coach at Humboldt State University, and he previously coached football, baseball, and track at California high schools. He lives in Folsom, California.
Reviews for Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball
"Cheating the Spread is an important study that usefully synthesizes existing literature on college sports gambling and the major scandals and provides a wealth of new information gleaned from heretofore untapped sources. The exhaustive research in Cheating the Spread has a comprehensive sweep that is stunning."
Richard O. Davies, author of Sports in American Life: A History "A compelling, informative look ... Read more
Richard O. Davies, author of Sports in American Life: A History "A compelling, informative look ... Read more