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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 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, 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."

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Cast of Characters Acknowledgments Prologue: Hush-Hush 1. Freeze 2. Marie 3. Fragments 4. Stirrings 5. Louisville Slugger 6. Nothing but Ashes 7. Face-off 8. Taking the Field 9. Happily Ever After 10. The Twelfth Man 11. In Hiding 12. Taking a Pass 13. Narrowly Honest 14. Scoreboard, Baby 15. Carving Their Names 16. Body and Soul 17. Up, Down, In, Out 18. Taking a Shot 19. A Week in the Life 20. Love, Love, Love 21. I Can't Breathe 22. Story Lines 23. California Fun 24. A Mystical, Magical Day 25. Climbing the Hill 26. Always Hated, Never Faded 27. Ripples 28. When the Game's Over Epilogue: All about the Wins Notes Index

About the Author :
Ken Armstrong is a reporter for the Seattle Times, as was Nick Perry from 2002 until 2011. Perry is now a correspondent for the Associated Press. Their investigative work on the 2000 Huskies won two of journalism’s highest honors: the George Polk Award and the Michael Kelly Award, recognizing “the fearless pursuit and expression of truth.” In 2010 Armstrong and Perry shared in the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting, which was awarded to the staff of the Seattle Times for its coverage of the shooting deaths of four police officers.  Armstrong won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting and is a three-time winner of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award. He previously worked at the Chicago Tribune, where he co-wrote six series on criminal-justice issues, including an investigation of the death penalty that helped prompt the state’s governor to suspend executions and eventually to empty Death Row. In 2009 he received the prestigious John Chancellor Award from Columbia University for lifetime achievement.   Perry has won national journalism awards in both New Zealand, his homeland, and the United States, where he has specialized in covering higher education. He was named a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan for the 2010–11 academic year.   

Review :
"The most harrowing book I have ever read about college sports." Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights "A terrific work of investigative reporting and a vital public service. I finished it at once infuriated and enlightened." David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi "This is a world-class job of reporting... Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry have made a page-turning story of what happens off the field while we are celebrating in the stands." Richard Ben Cramer, author of Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life "The great fraud of 'student-athletes,' higher education, and big-time football has never been detailed better than in "Scoreboard, Baby"... Theirs is a vivid, cautionary tale that, sadly, plays out in so many college athletic departments." Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated senior contributing writer and author of Everybody's All-American


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803228108
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Bison Books
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Sub Title: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
  • ISBN-10: 0803228104
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Width: 140 mm


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