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

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

Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award, Best Crime Fact category

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 exposÆ’Ã†'â€šÂ© 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."
Country USA
Brand Bison Books
Manufacturer Bison Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 17 illustrations
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780803228108
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Bison Books
Manufacturer	Bison Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	17 illustrations
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780803228108
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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

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