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

by Ken Armstrong

2020-12-29 21:38:45

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" ... Read more
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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Book Details

File size8.55 X 5.53 X 0.86 in
Print pages400
PublisherUNP - Bison Original
Publication date September 1, 2010
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780803228108

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