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UNINA9910779365103321 |
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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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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (218 p.) |
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SPO019000GAM004050EDU015000 |
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Sports betting - United States |
Football - Betting - United States |
Basketball - Betting - United States |
College sports - Economic aspects - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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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 records, newspapers, government documents, and university archives |
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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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UNINA9910809951403321 |
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Autore |
Wang-Ngai Siu |
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Chinese opera : the actor's craft / / Siu Wang-Ngai with Peter Lovrick |
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Hong Kong : , : Hong Kong University Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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988-8268-25-2 |
988-8268-26-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Operas, Chinese - History and criticism |
Acting in opera |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface -- How Chinese theatre solves theatrical problems -- Using stage movement -- Using props -- Using weapons and skills for stage fighting -- Using costumes -- Using special skills -- A final word--from the photographer and the writer -- Glossary -- Appendix I. English guide to the photographs -- Appendix II. Chinese guide to the photographs -- References -- Index. |
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Chinese opera embraces over 360 different styles of theatre that make one of the richest performance arts in the world. It combines music, speech, poetry, mime, acrobatics, stage fighting, vivid face-painting and exquisite costumes. First experiences of Chinese opera can be baffling because its vocabulary of stagecraft is familiar only to the seasoned aficionado. Chinese Opera: The Actor's Craft makes the experience more accessible for everyone. This book uses breath-taking images of Chinese opera in performance by Hong Kong photographer Siu Wang-Ngai to illustrate and explain Chinese opera stage technique. The book explores costumes, gestures, mime, acrobatics, props and stage techniques. Each explanation is accompanied by an example of its use in an opera and is illustrated by in-performance photographs. Chinese Opera: The Actor's Craft provides the reader with a basic grammar for understanding uniquely Chinese solutions to staging drama. |
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