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The scandal is referenced in the second episode of the fifth season of the HBO series The Sopranos, "Rat Pack", first broadcast on March 14, 2004. After learning of the death of New York mob boss Carmine Lupertazzi, Junior Soprano confirms that Lupertazzi invented point shaving: "CCNY versus Kentucky, 1951. Nobody beat the spread.
Ralph Milton Beard Jr. (December 2, 1927 – November 29, 2007) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player. [1] [2] He won two NCAA national basketball championships at the University of Kentucky and played two years in the National Basketball Association prior to being barred for life for his participation in the 1951 point shaving scandal.
Point Shaving Scandal [ edit ] On October 20, 1951, former Kentucky players Alex Groza , Ralph Beard , and Dale Barnstable were arrested for taking bribes from gamblers to shave points during the National Invitation Tournament game against the Loyola Ramblers in the 1948–49 season . [ 1 ]
Resulting from the CCNY point shaving scandal, Groza was banned from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for life in 1951. In college, he won two NCAA championships as captain of the University of Kentucky Wildcats, and was a two-time All-NBA player for the Indianapolis Olympians before his career abruptly ended.
Rupp was the head coach at Kentucky during the point shaving scandal of 1951. On October 20, 1951, former Kentucky players Alex Groza, Bill Spivey, Ralph Beard, and Dale Barnstable were arrested for taking bribes from gamblers to shave points during the National Invitation Tournament game against the Loyola Ramblers in the 1948–49 season. [12]
Point Shaving in the 1950s. In 1951, 32 players from seven schools were implicated in a point-shaving scandal that involved gamblers with ties to organized crime.
The first major instance of permanent bans being used throughout the NBA revolved around the case of the CCNY point-shaving scandal that primarily happened in 1951. As a result of this incident, 36 different collegiate players (including a few that were either already in the NBA or were drafted into the NBA by this time) and one NBA referee were reported to have been involved with this case at ...
Liberal women are withholding sex from men and shaving their heads to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris.