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UNINA9910452674803321 |
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Figone Albert J |
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Cheating the spread [[electronic resource] ] : gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball / / Albert J. Figone |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, 2012 |
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1-283-86831-8 |
0-252-09445-X |
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1 online resource (218 p.) |
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Sports betting - United States |
Football - Betting - United States |
Basketball - Betting - United States |
College sports - Economic aspects - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Creating a Game for Gamblers: The Rise of College Basketball""; ""2. The Golden Age of Gambling: College Basketball in the Postwar Years""; ""3. Stinking It Up: The 1951 College Basketball Gambling Scandal""; ""4. Do No Evil, See No Evil, and Hear No Evil: Coaching and Presiding over College Basketball ""; ""5. Do You Have Anything for Me?: Gambling Scandals in College Football from the Big Three to Bear Bryant"" |
""6. College Basketball's Incurable Disease: The 1961 Basketball Scandal""""7. Winning in Smaller Ways: The 1978 Boston College Scandal""; ""8. Student-Athletes and Campus Bookies: Basketball Scandals of the 1980's and 1990's""; ""9. A Continuing Nightmare: Gambling and Fixing in College Football, 1990-2010""; ""Afterword: When the Cost of Winning at All Costs Is Too High""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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"Delving into the history of gambling and corruption in intercollegiate sports, Cheating the Spread recounts all of the major gambling scandals in college football and basketball. Digging through court |
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records, newspapers, government documents, and university archives and conducting private interviews, Albert J. Figone finds that game rigging has been pervasive and nationwide throughout most of the sports' history. The insidious practice has spread to implicate not only bookies and unscrupulous gamblers but also college administrators, athletic organizers, coaches, fellow students, and the athletes themselves. Naming the players, coaches, gamblers, and go-betweens involved, Figone discusses numerous college basketball and football games reported to have been fixed and describes the various methods used to gain unfair advantage, inside information, or undue profit. His survey of college football includes early years of gambling on games between established schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Harvard; Notre Dame's All-American halfback and skilled gambler George Gipp; and the 1962 allegations of insider information between Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and former Georgia coach James Wallace "Wally" Butts; and many other recent incidents. Notable events in basketball include the 1951 scandal involving City College of New York and six other schools throughout the East Coast and the Midwest; the 1961 point-shaving incident that put a permanent end to the Dixie Classic tournament; the 1978 scheme in which underworld figures recruited and bribed several Boston College players to ensure a favorable point spread; the 1994-95 Northwestern scandal in which players bet against their own team; and other recent examples of compromised gameplay and gambling"-- |
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UNISA996395026503316 |
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Dalton Michael <d. 1648?> |
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The countrey iustice [[electronic resource] ] : containing the practise of the iustices of the peace out of their sessions. Gathered, for the better helpe of such iustices of peace as haue not been much conuersant in the studie of the lawes of this realme. Newly corrected and inlarged. By Michael Dalton of Lincolnes Inne, Gent |
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London, : Printed [by Adam Islip] for the Societie of Stationers, An. Dom. M.DC.XXII. [1622] |
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Justices of the peace - England |
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Printer's name from STC. |
The first leaf is blank. |
Includes index. |
Variant: with an added errata leaf. |
Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
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UNINA9910785396503321 |
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Autore |
Zenko Micah |
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Between threats and war : U.S. discrete military operations in the post-Cold War world / / Micah Zenko |
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Stanford, Ca, : Stanford Security Series, 2010 |
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1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Diplomacy |
Limited war |
United States Military policy |
United States Foreign relations 1989- |
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"A Council on Foreign Relations book." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Between Threats and War -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms Used in This Book -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Political Uses of Force and the Civilian-Military Split -- 3. Iraqi No-Fly Zones: 1991–2003 -- 4. Sudan and Afghanistan: August 20, 1998 -- 5. Yemen: November 3, 2002 -- 6. Khurmal, Iraq: Summer 2002 -- 7. Conclusion and Policy Recommendations -- Appendix I. Coding Cases and Descriptions: U.S. Discrete Military Operations, 1991 to June 1, 2009 -- Appendix II. Non-Uses of U.S. Discrete Military Operations, 1991 to June 1, 2009 -- Notes -- Index |
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When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.S. interests, and that cannot be adequately addressed through economic or political pressure, American policymakers and opinion formers have increasingly resorted to recommending the use of limited military force: that is, enough force to attempt to resolve the problem while minimizing U.S. military deaths, local civilian casualties, and collateral damage. These recommendations have ranged from the bizarre—such as a Predator missile strike to kill Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, or the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez—to the unwise—the preemptive bombing of North Korean ballistic missile sites—to the demonstrably practical—air raids into |
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Bosnia and Somalia, and drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. However, even though they have been a regular feature of America's uses of military force through four successive administrations, the efficacy of these "Discrete Military Operations" (DMOs) remains largely unanalyzed, leaving unanswered the important question of whether or not they have succeeded in achieving their intended military and political objectives. In response, Micah Zenko examines the thirty-six DMOs undertaken by the US over the past 20 years, in order to discern why they were used, if they achieved their objectives, and what determined their success or failure. In the process, he both evaluates U.S. policy choices and recommends ways in which limited military force can be better used in the future. The insights and recommendations made by Zenko will be increasingly relevant to making decisions and predictions about the development of American grand strategy and future military policy. |
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UNINA9910815532103321 |
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Autore |
Lorang Julie |
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David Livingstone au cœur du continent africain : un aventurier engagé contre l'esclavage / / par Julie Lorang ; avec la collaboration de Thomas Jacquemi |
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[Place of publication not identified] : , : 50Minutos.es, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (29 p.) |
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Grandes découvertes ; ; Numéro 5 |
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur David Livingstone et l'exploration de l'Afrique australe en moins d'une heure ! Missionnaire et explorateur écossais, David Livingstone entame, en 1840, un périple long de 16 ans avec un triple objectif : évangéliser les populations locales, trouver de nouvelles voies commerciales pour le Royaume-Uni, |
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et abolir l'esclavage en Afrique. Ce voyage, et les deux autres expéditions qui le suivront, le mènera au cœur de l'Afrique australe, région jusqu'alors inexplorée.Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur : La vie du navigateur Le contexte polit |
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