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Title: Fixed: How Goodfellas Bought Boston College Basketball by David Porter ISBN: 0-87833-146-8 Publisher: Taylor Pub Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, incisive, entertaining
Comment: I read David Porter's fascinating and well researched account of the real and perceived point shaving of Boston College's basketball team in a single sitting. In addition to his sensitive approach to each player's family history, psychology, and financial stresses, Porter presents the dynamic among the Mob, law enforcement and the players with nuance and professional objectivity.
A great read for all - serious sports enthusiasts to grandma on a Sunday afternoon.
Rating: 5
Summary: Riveting On-/Off-Court Saga
Comment: Tremendous read -- the characters come alive, the full range of personal fallibility: gullible to greedy, stoic to berserk. An amazing examination of the verious motivations of human behavior, and the way character is tested by pressure, by competition, by fear and by the temptation of money. Involvement of celebrity gangsters lends both intrigue and absurdity,as the stakes were simultaneously huge for the players but penny-ante for the kingpins.... Great book to read. You will watch March Madness with new eyes.
Recommended to basketball, crime, and suspense fans.
Rating: 1
Summary: What a joke
Comment: Porter's agenda to clear Jim Sweeney's name and to cast more doubt over Ernie Cobb's name is disgraceful. Sweeney fixed games. Period. He admitted to that by accepting a plea bargain from his "buddy" Ed McDonald. Cobb, who would have been a very good NBA player was acquited of all charges, yet Porter wants you to believe that Cobb was guilty. This book insults any true Basketball fan's knowledge of the game. Kuhn wasn't good enough to dictate outcome, Cobb was acquited of all charges, leaving Sweeney the Point Guard as the obvious link on the court. I'm surprised Porter's never been sued for this inaccurate hatchet job.
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Title: The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas by Chad Millman ISBN: 0306811561 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Scandals of '51: How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball by Charles Rosen, Charley Rosen ISBN: 1888363916 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball by Charley Rosen ISBN: 1583225625 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Game They Played by Stanley Cohen, Stan Cohen ISBN: 0786708212 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Book On Bookies : An Inside Look At A Successful Sports Gambling Operation by James Jeffries, Charles Oliver ISBN: 1581600704 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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