Scoreboard, Baby : A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
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| Title: | Scoreboard, Baby : A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity |
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| Description: | 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.” |
| Authors: | Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Football--Corrupt practices--United States, College sports--Washington (State) |
| Categories: | SPORTS & RECREATION / Football |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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.” |
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| ISBN: | 9780803228108 9780803233935 9780803268098 |
