||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Hoops gone amuck|By Jim Lester|This is the story of the largely forgotten but enormously significant series of events that almost destroyed college basketball as a major sport in America. In the early 1950s, a host of college basketball players who had fixed the outcome of college games by shaving points in order to beat the point spread and the gamblers who induced them to pa|About the Author|A native of the Bronx and longtime pal of basketball guru Phil Jackson, CHARLEY ROSEN led the league in technical fouls during each of his six years as a coach in the now-defunct Continental Basketball Association. Since then he has
The college basketball scandals of 1951 were to basketball what the 1919 Black Sox scandals were to baseball—a loss of innocence, after which the game would be permanently tarnished, its relationship to power and big money firmly established. In Scandals of '51, Charley Rosen identifies all the major figures—including players, coaches, gangsters, clergymen, politicians—that made up the elaborate network that controlled the outcomes to many games or pro...
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