BIG BLUE BLUES: The Inside Story of the Kentucky Basketball Point Shaving Scandal

By Ken Mink
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Published: Nov. 04, 2011
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Words: 38,524 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

This is the inside factual story of how point shaving scandals hit several colleges in the 1940s and 1950s. The most affected school was the University of Kentucky, which had won three national championships and an Olympics in the four years preceding the disclosure of how gamblers had paid players to influence the outcome of important games.

Extended description

This is the inside factual story of how point shaving scandals hit several colleges in the 1940s and 1950s. The most affected school was the University of Kentucky, which had won three national championships and an Olympics in the four years preceding the disclosure of how gamblers had paid players to influence the outcome of important games. Three of its players were banned for life and the team had to forfeit the entire 1952-53 season. But the story of how the members of Kentucky’s fabled “Fabulous Five” got involved with gamblers and fought to restore their integrity has never before been told.

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1940s, 1950s, kentucky, cheating, olympics, gamblers, ncaa, college basketball, point shaving, adolph rupp, ken mink

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