Scoreboard, Baby : A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity Paperback / softback
by Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry
Paperback / softback
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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.”
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 17 photographs
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2010
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- ISBN:9780803228108
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 17 photographs
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780803228108
