{"product_id":"9780803233935","title":"Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe adjectives associated with the University of Washington’s 2000 football season—mystical, magical, miraculous—changed when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry’s four-part exposé of the 2000 Huskies hit the newspaper stands: \"explosive…chilling” (\u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e), \"blistering” (\u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e), \"shocking…appalling” (\u003ci\u003eTacoma News Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e), \"astounding” (ESPN), \"jaw-dropping” (\u003ci\u003eOrlando Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in \u003ci\u003eScoreboard, Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109359468784,"sku":"9780803233935","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803233935","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}