Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity

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 expos 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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 09/01/2010
ISBN: 9780803228108
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.56w x 0.82d
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2010
New York Times Book Review 10/24/2010 pg. 25
New York Times Book Review 10/31/2010 pg. 22
Foreword 10/17/2010