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Item Details
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SCOREBOARD, BABY
A STORY OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL, CRIME, AND COMPLICITY |
By: |
Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry |
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Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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£14.44 |
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ISBN 10: |
0803228104 |
ISBN 13: |
9780803228108 |
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Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 September, 2010 |
Pages: |
400 |
Description: |
Goes behind the scenes of the University of Washington Huskies' Cinderella football season 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. |
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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 expose 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 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." Read additional praise. |
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17 photographs |
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US |
Imprint: |
Bison Books |
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