Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
- ISBN-10
- 0803228104
- ISBN-13
- 9780803228108
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 374
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-09-01
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Authors
- Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry
Description
Go behind the scenes of the 2000 Huskies' Cinderella story to discover 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.
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