Cheating the Spread
Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball
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"Cheating the Spread is an important study that usefully synthesizes existing literature on college sports gambling and the major scandals and provides a wealth of new information gleaned from heretofore untapped sources. The exhaustive research in Cheating the Spread has a comprehensive sweep that is stunning."--Richard O. Davies, author of Sports in American Life: A History»
Discusses College sports' ignominious history of game fixing Les mer
Discusses College sports' ignominious history of game fixing
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Illinois Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780252078750
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
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"Cheating the Spread is an important study that usefully synthesizes existing literature on college sports gambling and the major scandals and provides a wealth of new information gleaned from heretofore untapped sources. The exhaustive research in Cheating the Spread has a comprehensive sweep that is stunning."--Richard O. Davies, author of Sports in American Life: A History»
« "A compelling, informative look into the dark side of collegiate athletics."--Booklist
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"An informative account illustrating the nature of incentives in big-time college athletics. It should be required reading for any serious student of college athletics."--The International Journal of the History of Sport