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

Name: Scoreboard, Baby A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
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ISBN: 9780803228108

ISBN-10: 0803228104

ISBN-13: 9780803228108

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry

List price: $19.95

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The adjectives associated with the University of Washington's 2000 football seasonmystical, magical, miraculouschanged when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry's four-part expose 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, inScoreboard, 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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.55" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Cast of Characters


Acknowledgments


Prologue: Hush-Hush



Freeze



Marie



Fragments



Stirrings



Louisville Slugger



Nothing but Ashes



Face-off



Taking the Field



Happily Ever After



The Twelfth Man



In Hiding



Taking a Pass



Narrowly Honest



Scoreboard, Baby



Carving Their Names



Body and Soul



Up, Down, In, Out



Taking a Shot



A Week in the Life



Love, Love, Love



I Can't Breathe



Story Lines



California Fun



A Mystical, Magical Day



Climbing the Hill



Always Hated, Never Faded



Ripples



When the Game's Over


Epilogue: All about the Wins


Notes


Index