Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity

· U of Nebraska Press
2.6
9 reviews
Ebook
360
Pages
Eligible

About this ebook

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 true story from firsthand interviews and thousands of pages of documents: the forensic report on a bloody fingerprint; the notes of a detective investigating allegations of rape; confidential memoranda of prosecutors; and the criminal records of the dozen-plus players arrested that year with scant mention in the newspapers and minimal consequences in the courts. The statement of a judge, sentencing one player to thirty days in jail, says it all: "to be served after football season."

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2.6
9 reviews
A Google user
August 11, 2010
The horse was already dead... stop beating it! These two authors need to quit rehashing old news about stuff that was over long before they ever started their "research".
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A Google user
August 10, 2010
It amazes me that these two continue to go to the well on this topic. Can we please drag out these players and coaches and drag them through the mud one more time? One of them died playing football and they continue to defecate on his grave. Just sad and not admirable.
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A Google user
August 11, 2010
What rubbish. Don't bother buying this - it contains nothing that isn't already in the public realm and is mostly regurgitated tripe.
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