Cheating the Spread : Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Creating a Game for Gamblers: The Rise of College Basketball -- 2. The Golden Age of Gambling: College Basketball in the Postwar Years -- 3. Stinking It Up: The 1951 College Basketball Gambling Scandal -- 4. Do No Evil, See No Evil, and Hear No Evil: Coaching and Presiding over College Basketball -- 5. "Do You Have Anything for Me?": Gambling Scandals in College Football from the Big Three to Bear -- 6. College Basketball's Incurable Disease: The 1961 Basketball Scandal -- 7. Winning in Smaller Ways: The 1978 Boston College Scandal -- 8. Student-Athletes and Campus Bookies: Basketball Scandals of the 1980s and 1990s -- 9. A Continuing Nightmare: Gambling and Fixing in College Football, 1990-2010 -- Afterword: When the Cost of Winning at All Costs Is Too High -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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