Scoreboard, Baby A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
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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 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 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."
Book information
ISBN: | 9780803228108 |
Publisher: | Bison Original |
Imprint: | Bison Books |
Pub date: | 25 Dec 2010 |
DEWEY: | 796.3326309797772 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 374 |
Weight: | 542g |
Height: | 142mm |
Width: | 217mm |
Spine width: | 24mm |