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Cheating the Spread by"Albert J. Figone"
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 to have been fixed and describes the various methods used to gain unfair advantage, inside information, or undue profit. His survey of college football includes early years of gambling on games between established schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Harvard; Notre Dame's All-American halfback and skilled gambler George Gipp; and the 1962 allegations of insider information between Alabama coach Paul \
Cheating the Spread
By:"Albert J. Figone"
Published on 2012-10-30 by University of Illinois Press
BOOKS ID : TLZtnH-hUO4C
Ebook Title : Cheating the Spread
ETAG : Brq/1ulgDW8
ISBN_13 Code : 9780252094453
ISBN_10 Code : 025209445X
Book Print Type : BOOK
Rank : 24 for keyword gambling quit
Book Author :"Albert J. Figone"
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Book Pages Count : 216
Print Type : BOOK
Book's Categories :"Sports & Recreation"
Books Language : en
Text to Speech Access : ALLOWED
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