Hoop Crazy : The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton /

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Clair Bee (1896-1983) was a hugely successful basketball coach at Rider College and Long Island University with a 412 and 87 record before his career was derailed in 1951 by a point-shaving scandal. In the trial that sent his star player, Sherman White, to prison, the judge excoriated Bee for creati...

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Autor principal: Gildea, Dennis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville [Ark.] : University of Arkansas Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bee, Clair, > 1896-1983.
Bee, Clair, > 1896-1983. > Chip Hilton sports series.
College sports > Corrupt practices.
Basketball coaches.
Authors, American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.
Sports universitaires > Pratiques deloyales > États-Unis > Histoire.
Écrivains americains > 20e siecle > Biographies.
College sports > Corrupt practices > United States > History.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Basketball coaches > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The extremes of Clair Bee : the bad and the good
  • The early years : 1896-1931. Grafton and Valley Falls : 1896-1920
  • Dick Dalton goes to college : 1920-26
  • Professor Bee and Coach Bee at Rider : 1926-1931
  • Bee at Long Island University : 1931-52. Making the Blackbirds proud
  • Defying Hitler ; losing Luisetti
  • The innovator and the NIT Championships
  • Jim Crow and the spit bucket
  • Thanksgiving 1939 : ringers and ambition
  • World War II, postwar boom, and the creation of Chip
  • Chip Hilton and race relations
  • Sixty-four Manhattans and a few wives
  • The fix and the fixers
  • Sherman White and Coach Bee
  • Journalist Bee confronts the scandal
  • Bee the psalm singer
  • Chip and the scandal
  • Life after Long Island University : 1952-83. The Bullets and beyond
  • Bobby Knight, another championship, and blindness
  • Epilogue.

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