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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1. Creating a Game for Gamblers: The Rise of College Basketball 1 2. The Golden Age of Gambling: College Basketball in the Postwar Years 12 3. Stinking It Up: The 1951 College Basketball Gambling Scandal 24 4. Do No Evil, See No Evil, and Hear No Evil: Coaching and Presiding over College Basketball Scandals in the 1950s 41 5. “Do You Have Anything for Me?”: Gambling Scandals in College Football from the Big Three to Bear Bryant 61 6. College Basketball’s Incurable Disease: The 1961 Basketball Scandal 87 7. Winning in Smaller Ways: The 1978 Boston College Scandal 110 8. Student-Athletes and Campus Bookies: Basketball Scandals of the 1980s and 1990s 128 9. A Continuing Nightmare: Gambling and Fixing in College Football, 1990–2010 137 Afterword: When the Cost of Winning at All Costs Is Too High 151 Notes 155 Bibliography 171 Index 187 ...