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He was the captain of the Boston College Eagles. He was nominated by Boston College (BC) as a Rhodes Scholar candidate. Raised in Trenton, New Jersey, he attended the Lawrenceville School before receiving an athletic scholarship to Boston College. Sweeney testified as a witness in the 1978–79 Boston College basketball point shaving scandal in which members of organized crimeschemed to control the outcomes of several games. Sweene…

The Boston College (BC) team of 1978/79 were far from the first to get entangled in a scam. In 1949/50, 33 players across seven teams shaved ...

01.11.2021 · The Boston College point shaving scandal was not a success for those involved, and it’s not just because they were caught. They managed to fix just four out of nine matches in the way they wanted. These activities required a lot of planning and effort from the mobsters and from the players too.

Intentional point shaving on the floor was never proven, and if Hill hadn't later confessed the scheme to prosecutors after getting busted for ...

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The 1978–79 Boston College basketball point shaving scandal involved a scheme in which members of the American Mafia recruited and bribed several Boston College Eagles men's basketball players to ensure the team would not win by the required margin (not cover the point spread), allowing the

On October 7, ESPN will air the latest installment of its acclaimed “30 For 30” series with a look back at the infamous Boston College basketball point shaving ...

23.07.2019 · Although proving his involvement with these crimes proved difficult for federal prosecutors, the notorious gangster Burke slipped on a banana peel by involving himself with a point-shaving scheme with Boston College in 1978. In 1980 Henry Hill was arrested and agreed to turn informant for the authorities. Their aim was to convict Burke of robbery.

Yet they all admitted taking money from mobsters to fix college basketball games. Nearly 40 years after the Boston College point-shaving scandal shocked the ...

The true story of the famous Boston College point shaving scandal. The center is a 6 ft. 8 in. white basketball player named Rick Kuhn, who has hopes of ...

The Boston College point-shaving scandal was a sensational story that went as viral as it could in the early 1980s. It had all the sexy ...

07.10.2014 · ESPN's latest 30 for 30 film tackles the Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal.

Boston College's basketball team ended their 1978–79 season with a 22–9 record. It is unclear how much money the players involved in the point-shaving scheme ...

16.05.2018 · Jimmy Burke (played by Robert DeNiro in Martin Scorsese’s mob masterpiece) went to jail because Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) ratted, almost off …

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01.10.2014 · Whenever the Boston College scandal comes up, he tends to remind people that there’s always more than one side to a story, and leave it at that. What’s striking about the point shaving scandal from...

Indicted in 1983 for his role in the scandal and put on trial in 1984, Cobb refused to admit to any wrongdoings involving point shaving.

03.10.2014 · The Boston College point-shaving scandal was a sensational story that went as viral as it could in the early 1980s. It had all the sexy storylines: the mob, a …