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Mar 23, 2015 · Despite the constant talk about the need to pay college athletes, academic infractions, and even improper benefits, there has never been a college basketball scandal quite to the scale of the one that happened 64 years ago in New York City. This is the story of the 1951 CCNY Point Shaving Scandal.
Jan 1, 1978 · Had the players in the 1951 college basketball scandals been guilty of more conventional offense—a crime against person or property, a stolen car, a burglary, a simple assault—redemption no...
The arrests of the three City College players on that February evening were the initial tremor of the earthquake of scandal that hit college basketball. Eventually, District Attorney Frank...
Much to the chagrin of the NCAA, college basketball is a giant moneymaking corporation that has inevitably seen its fair share of scandals. As recently as this past season, college...
During the 1960–61 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, a major gambling scandal involving a former NBA All-Star basketball player and many members of organized crime syndicates broke through which had ultimately been years in the making.
Sep 27, 2017 · In mid-March came the revelation that two men had been arrested in New York, charged with conspiring to fix the results of college games by bribing players. Less than a week later, Sports ...
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The images of these young men playing basketball seem out of place in a collection of historic photos documenting crime in Brooklyn during the mid-1900s. Many Brooklynites found something wrong about this picture in 1951, as well.
