Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
Ken Armstrong
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Description for Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
Paperback. A gripping account of the University of Washington's 2000 season when many players went afoul of the law (many with serious charges) and were still allowed to play the season Num Pages: 400 pages, 17 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; 3JMC; BTC; WSJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
The adjectives associated with the University of Washington’s 2000 football season—mystical, magical, miraculous—changed when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry’s four-part exposé of the 2000 Huskies hit the newspaper stands: “explosive . . . chilling” (Sports Illustrated), “blistering” (Baltimore Sun), “shocking . . . appalling” (Tacoma News Tribune), “astounding” (ESPN), “jaw-dropping” (Orlando Sentinel). Now, in Scoreboard, Baby, Armstrong and Perry go behind the scenes of the Huskies’ Cinderella story to reveal a timeless morality tale about the price of obsession, the creep of fanaticism, and the ways in which a community can lose even when its team wins. The authors unearth the ... Read more
The adjectives associated with the University of Washington’s 2000 football season—mystical, magical, miraculous—changed when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry’s four-part exposé of the 2000 Huskies hit the newspaper stands: “explosive . . . chilling” (Sports Illustrated), “blistering” (Baltimore Sun), “shocking . . . appalling” (Tacoma News Tribune), “astounding” (ESPN), “jaw-dropping” (Orlando Sentinel). Now, in Scoreboard, Baby, Armstrong and Perry go behind the scenes of the Huskies’ Cinderella story to reveal a timeless morality tale about the price of obsession, the creep of fanaticism, and the ways in which a community can lose even when its team wins. The authors unearth the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803228108
SKU
V9780803228108
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Ref
99-1
About Ken Armstrong
Ken Armstrong is a reporter for the Seattle Times, as was Nick Perry from 2002 until 2011. Perry is now a correspondent for the Associated Press. Their investigative work on the 2000 Huskies won two of journalism’s highest honors: the George Polk Award and the Michael Kelly Award, recognizing “the fearless pursuit and expression of truth.” In 2010 Armstrong and Perry ... Read more
Reviews for Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
""However familiar the underlying conflict might seem, there's an added layer of tension and tragedy to the narrative that makes Scoreboard, Baby a particularly distressing tale—and one that should be required reading for anyone linked to university life.""—Libby Sander, Chronicle of Higher Education|""While the focus is specifically on the University of Washington program, this story carries importance and relevance to ... Read more