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Oct 14, 2021 · If you need a reminder of the scandal that, at the time, rocked college athletics: Arizona State University's Steve "Hedake" Smith and Isaac Burton got wrapped up with the campus bookie, Benny...
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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.
The CCNY point-shaving scandal of 1951 was a college basketball point-shaving gambling scandal that officially involved seven American colleges and universities in all, with four of these schools being in the New York metropolitan area, two of them occurring in the Midwest, and one of them being in the South. [1]
- The True Story Behind ‘The Scheme’, Explained
- Who Is Christian Dawkins?
- NCAA Scandal
‘The Scheme’ offers a deeper look into the 2017-2018 NCAA Division I men’s basketball corruption scandal. While the FBI had been investigating the scandal for over two years, it only became public following a series of high-profile arrests on September 27, 2017. The people involved included coaches from reputed basketball programs and Adidas employ...
The initial part of ‘The Scheme’ looks at Christian Dawkins’ life and how he ended up becoming a part of the biggest scandal in the history of collegiate basketball. Dawkins was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan. His father, Lou Dawkins was a well-known and respect basketball coach at Saginaw High School, while his mother, Latricia Vaughn-Dawkin...
Christian Dawkins ultimately decided to pursue his own thing, which led him to become a scapegoat for two undercover agents, who called themselves Jeff D’Angelo and Jill Bailey, and were posing to be investors. They wanted him to pay the coaches so that they could catch them all red-handed in wire-fraud and bribery. However, Dawkins resisted statin...
Apr 23, 2019 · First, we have to break thestigma around the point-shaving scandal and absolve our students, faculty,players, coaches, and the Harlem community of the burdens they have had to bearas a result of just a few player’s crimes of over 60 years ago.
Nov 24, 1981 · Rick Kuhn, 26 years old, a former Boston College basketball player who was one of the accused, seemed dazed and pale as he sat in his chair at the defense table while the jurors were polled....
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Sep 27, 2017 · Once again, as in 1961, individuals driven by dollar signs have ensnared college basketball players with the promise of wealth, doing further damage to the game that helped put the Dixie...
