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Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
Scoreboard Baby A Story of College Football Crime and Complicity Author:Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry The adjectives associated with the University of Washington?s 2000 football seasonmystical, magical, miraculouschanged 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... more » . . . 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. (20100831)« less