Scoreboard, Baby

The adjectives associated with the University of Washingtonês 2000 football seasonãmystical, magical, miraculousãchanged when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perryês four-part expos? of the 2000 Huskies hit the newspaper stands: –explosive . . . chilling” (Sports Illustrated), –blistering” (Baltimore Sun), –shocking . . . appalling” (Tacoma News Tribune), –astounding” (ESPN), –jaw-dropping” (Orlando Sentinel). ¾ Now, in Scoreboard, Baby, Armstrong and Perry go behind the scenes of the Huskiesê 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.” ¾ Read additional praise.