Albert J. Figone
University of Illinois Press, 2012
Call Number: New Book Shelf GV 717 F54 2012
Periodically we hear about another cheating scandal in intercollegiate sports. Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball is a new book in the library's collection which recounts all the major gambling scandals in college football and basketball and discusses the factors that lead to these scandals and the difficulties in controlling them.
The material in the book is based on exhaustive research in court records, newspapers, university archives and government documents as well as private interviews and makes for fascinating reading. The author finds that game rigging has been pervasive throughout most of the sports' history and concludes that it is unlikely to end.
Review by John Tibbals, SWC Librarian
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