: Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry
: Scoreboard, Baby A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
: Bison Original
: 9780803268098
: 1
: CHF 33.60
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: English
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 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). 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.'