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

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Prologue: Hush-hush -- Freeze -- Marie -- Fragments -- Stirrings -- Louisville Slugger -- Nothing but ashes -- Face-off -- Taking the field -- Happily ever after -- The twelfth man -- In hiding -- Taking a pass -- Narrowly hones -- Scoreboard, baby -- Carving their names -- Body and soul -- Up, down, in, out -- Taking a shot -- A week in the life -- Love, love, love -- I can't breathe -- Story lines -- California fun -- A mystical, magical day -- Climbing the hill -- Always hated, never faded -- Ripples -- When the game's over -- Epilogue: All about the wins.
Go behind the scenes of the 2000 Huskies' Cinderella story to discover 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.

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PUBLISHED
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xiii, 374 p. : ill. photographs ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780803228108
0803228104

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Perry, Nick, 1970-

SUBJECTS
Washington Huskies (Football team)
University of Washington -- Football.
College sports -- Washington (State)
Football -- Corrupt practices.