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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 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...
Nov 8, 2019 · What a 70-year-old basketball scandal has to do with college players earning money today. Under the surface of this point shaving scandal lies systemic inequality still intact between...
- Matthew Goodman
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...
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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Oct 13, 2023 · The FBI, at the time, put the sport on notice for its failure to curb long-suspected illegal recruiting practices at the highest levels of men's college basketball. Just over six years later,...
