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Scoreboard, Baby
Ken Armstrong
Nick Perry
其他書名
A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
出版
U of Nebraska Press
, 2010-09-01
主題
Sports & Recreation / Football
ISBN
0803268092
9780803268098
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BEo6AwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The adjectives associated with the University of Washingtonês 2000 football seasonãmystical, magical, miraculousãchanged when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perryês four-part expos? 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
). ¾ Now, in
Scoreboard, Baby
, Armstrong and Perry go behind the scenes of the Huskiesê 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.” ¾ Read additional praise.