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Tex Cox of The Daily Herald wrote, "City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal might just be the most beautiful sports documentary I've ever seen." [3] Ed Bark, writing for the Sun-Sentinel said the film "is a lush filmic swish, even if some of its narrative gets gaudier than a Dennis Rodman dye job."
Prior to the CCNY scandal, the most infamous case of match fixing in college basketball occurred on January 29, 1945, when five Brooklyn College players (Bernard Barnett, Jerome Green, Robert Leder, Larry Pearlstein, and Stanley Simon) were arrested and confessed to accepting $1,000 each from multiple gamblers with promises of an extra $2,000 (equivalent to over $34,900 in 2024) included to ...
The scandal involved 37 arrests of students from 22 different colleges, [1] [2] as well as at least nine players that received money from fixers or gamblers that were never convicted of crimes, eight go-betweens being prosecuted for their efforts in the scandal (including a couple of former college basketball players and a college football ...
A years-long FBI investigation into corruption and bribery in college basketball has implicated several top players and programs. College basketball scandal: Timeline, summary of FBI investigation ...
Junius Kellogg (March 16, 1927 – September 16, 1998) was an American basketball player, coach, and civil servant. He was the first African-American to play college basketball for Manhattan College. While playing for the Jaspers, Kellogg became known for his role in helping to expose the CCNY point-shaving scandal of 1950–51.
3. Class Action Park (2020) Stream on HBO Max “Class Action Park” is a documentary about New Jersey’s Action Park, a water-themed amusement park known to locals as “Traction Park.”
A new Netflix documentary will pull back the curtain on the notorious college admissions bribery scandal that ensnared Hollywood celebrities, financiers and other members of the monied elite.
1961 NCAA University Division men's basketball gambling scandal; 1978–79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal; 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal; 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal