[ii] Holy Cross ultimately won by only two points, as Cobb scored eight points in the final minute to bring the Eagles close, and everyone involved lost a substantial amount of money. Early on, before the season got underway, Cobb says that he was approached by a man from Pittsburgh named Rocco Perla, who hed seen hanging around campus with his teammate, senior forward Rick Kuhn. They reintroduced the original strategy, which proved successful for the February 3 Fordham game when Boston College, a ten-point favorite, won by seven points. Hill and Tony Perla claim that they were all doing cocaine and Kuhn and Sweeney begin marking games that they are favored in and talking about all the money they will make. BC basketball players Rick Kuhn, Joe Streater and Jim Sweeney were persuaded to fix nine Eagles games during the season. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Columbia University has announced economist Nemat "Minouche" Shafik will become the university's 20th president and the first woman to serve in the role in its 268-year history. Kuhn tells Sweeney that the mobsters in New York and Pittsburgh want this win and that this will be the last fix. Hill gave up everybody including the players involved. FRANK OBRIEN/GLOBE STAFF/FILE 1978 Sweeney, Cobb, and He continues to be involved in sports and is in an older mens basketball league that competes around the world. The government contended that Kuhn was paid $2,500 per game to manipulate the spread in six games and also was given cocaine and Quaaludes. The structure includes a minute-by-minute analysis, a slow-motion capture of the climax of the story, and a bolded narrative that gives the article structure. Cmon, you can do it. She was a remarkable individual that helped me so much, in terms of establishing the study and work habits that allowed me to be successful in the classroom.. The film goes on to show how nobody really made a lot of money from the fix. At trial in 1981, the government's case consisted primarily of the testimony of Hill and three other witnesses: Sweeney and Joseph Beaulieu, both Boston College players, and Barbara Reed, a 23-year-old nurse who lived with Kuhn during the 197879 Eagles season. You may opt-out by. At this point in the film, we stray away from the actual point-shaving and more into the consequences and investigation after the fact. Jim Sweeney is a happy guy. Bets in this column are given in the format ", Winner is given as either Opp or BC and the margin of victory. And after they put my name out there, and after I admitted to taking that $1,000, they didnt have enough evidence to prosecute me. Suspenseful music plays and the trial begins. I didnt like dealing with a third party I didnt know and had never metBut the word came back that Cobb was enthusiastic and, dont worry Henry, nothing can screw up now., In the 30-for-30 documentary that ESPN just aired, Henry Hill admits that he never talked to me, said Cobb. I was shining at the camp. The fixers changed the original plan and bet on Holy Cross, but the players were told this right before the game. On the stand during the trial, Rick Kuhns girlfriend, Barbara Reed, with whom he shared an apartment during his senior year at Boston College, testified that she overheard Kuhn and Sweeney discussing the Fordham game, saying that they had to keep the ball away from Cobb because he shot the ball all the time. The fixing begins to wear into Sweeney, who confides in his roommates but never seeks out the proper authority. The Eagles managed to lose by 22 points, 10381, with the syndicate winning its bet. "He said he had a betting thing set up in a way to make money during the season so that we could be taken care of," said Reed, now a nurse in Syracuse, N.Y. Reed also testified that Kuhn threatened to kill her if she ever told of the scheme. Loughery told me that I had the ability to play in the NBA. He graduated from Woodworth Public School in 1985 and earned a bachelors degree from University of Sioux Falls. My family has suffered. It wasnt an absolute disaster but it was a cousin. Hes now happily at work on his latest project, a sports cartoon character named Mike (as in microphone) that appears on his daily sports blog and in 35 comic books downloadable on Amazon. Kuhn was thus expected to keep the score below the six- to seven-point margin. This past August, the International Maxibasketball Federation (FIMBA), the governing body for global organized basketball tournaments for age groups beginning at 30, named him as its USA Ambassador. On the stand during the trial, Rick Kuhns girlfriend, Barbara Reed, with whom he shared an apartment during his senior year at Boston College, testified that she overheard Kuhn and Sweeney discussing the Fordham game, saying that they had to keep the ball away from Cobb because he shot the ball all the time. Sweeney, who went on a year later to win the Naismith Award as college basketballs top player under six feet tall, says he was initially recruited into the fix by Kuhn without his knowledge and that he never intentionally threw an errant pass, missed a shot or did anything else to alter a game. It was one of the most tremendous feelings Id ever experienced.. Kaskade, DJ Diesel (Aka Shaquille ONeal) Among The Headliners At This Years Indy 500 Snake Pit, Real Madrid Vs. Liverpool Is Already Make Or Break, The American Express Draws Flashy Field Despite Un-Elevated Status, Jake Paul And Tommy Fury Agree To Fight (Again) On Feb. 25. Who Is The NBA GOAT: Lebron James, Michael Jordan, Or Kareem? A few blocks from Boston College, the place that held so much meaning to him, where hed worked so hard to create his lifes purpose, the symbolism was inescapable when he found that he had a flat tire. I was reading about the Boston College point-shaving scandal of the late 70s and I was wondering whatever became of Rick Kuhn in his later life. Interim Application of Copyright and Trademark Registration in Cochin. Sweeney knows hell probably never completely escape the association to the scandal, something he learned to live with years ago. If you missed Part I, you can read it here. She knew the terrain in terms of what I needed to be doing, said Cobb. Ernie Cobb is also introduced, a senior, team captain, and Boston Colleges top scorer. Cobb was drafted by the Utah Jazz in the 6th Round and cut during training camp. It is quite a ride, so please, enjoy it. Do you recognize him? And my answer every time was, No! I didnt recognize any of those mobsters because I had never met them. Ernie, and anybody who truly knew him, who knew about his character and what type of young man he was, we were all heartbroken. I took every single practice and every single game seriously, said Cobb. Tennessee church holding prayer as FAA investigates plane crash that killed 4 members. The phone calls flooded in from his friends and family in Boston and Connecticut, with despaired voices on the other end asking, Did you do this? He dreamed of walking away from Boston College at seasons end as one of the schools most revered sons before embarking on what he hoped would be an accomplished, financially rewarding career in the NBA. Rocco says Sweeney told him he missed it to avoid a pair of cement shoes. After perhaps his greatest moment during the preseason, when he had that outstanding game against the Celtics right before the regular season tipped off, Cobb was relaxing in his hotel room when he heard a knock at the door. The prosecution contended that the scheme was intended to enable the five men to win large sums of money by betting on the games and beating bookmakers' point spreads. The Boys of Dunbar, A Story of Love, Hope and Basketball. I understand that they want to disassociate themselves from the scandal. Kuhn explains to Sweeney that they are both going to get killed after not successfully fixing a game against Providence. He told me to keep playing and working hard and that one day I might get another chance., When the story first broke in January of 1981, Cobb was in shock. This is a BETA experience. But I dont feel any bitterness toward the prosecution. Boston College confirmed the investigation on Friday. This has gone on for four years. I was having a lot of success, we were turning around the fortunes of the program and I was getting a lot of press in the Boston Globe and area newspapers. hoops that blazed a trail, Mills continued. We also see Liotta, as Hill, trying to impress Robert DeNiro, who portrayed the mobster Jimmy Burke. They said they were trying like hell but they couldnt get the job done because Cobb was the key man on the team., After Boston College beat Holy Cross 89-87 in the first game between the two schools that season, Hill said in SI, Well, B.C. "Boston College's tradition in athletics rests upon the accomplishments of many thousands of men and women. The audience learns about Boston Colleges rival Holy Cross and its huge significance to the players and the alumni. If this film has taught us anything, it is that it doesnt matter which side was more at fault, ultimately the decisions they made changed their lives forever. I want to be disassociated from it as well. Even after being informed of the investigation, he said he noticed nothing unusual after reviewing films of the games. Sweeney describes his side of the story, claiming he is invited to dinner with Kuhn and Tony, where he meets Henry Hill who threatens to kill him if he doesnt begin fixing games with Kuhn. They contacted a local friend, Paul Mazzei, who was known to have influence within major New York gambling circles. It was a tragedy that he never got another chance to play in the NBA., Kevin Loughery never gave me a firm reason why the Nets were letting me go, said Cobb. I continue to feel like I have to defend myself, all these years later, even after the government tried their case against me and I was found innocent. The narrator explains that the strength of how Henry Hills testimony is would determine if Burke was going to be convicted. He said Hill told him he was backed by powerful interests in New York, and he was afraid of what might happen to him if he refused to cooperate. Hill casually brings up and admits to fixing basketball games at Boston College. A federal jury in Brooklyn yesterday convicted former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn and four codefendants of conspiring to manipulate the scores of Boston College games during the 1978-79 season. The goal for making some real money is to get the character a TV gig with ESPN, NBC Sports, or another major sports network. I cooperated willingly, and Im glad I did, Sweeney says. Still, he feels lucky. Everybody involved in the scandal got sentenced except for Hill and Sweeney. He sold copy machines and paved driveways for an asphalt company, which was ironically the same job his father found when hed relocated from North Carolina to Connecticut some twenty years earlier. She helped tutor me, and encouraged me through some rough spots. The syndicate was able to lay nine points when the game was first available to be bet, and therefore pushed. Bookmakers, on seeing the heavy action, moved the line as high as twelve to discourage bets on the favorite (St. John's) and attract more bets on the underdog. And that kept him in Hills clutches. Those later betters on St. John's lost money because they laid more than the eventual nine point margin of victory. In 2014, the ESPN-produced 30 for 30 series debuted Playing for the Mob,[6] the story about how Hill and his Pittsburgh associates, and several Boston College basketball players, perpetrated the point-shaving scheme during the 197879 season, an episode briefly mentioned in the movie Goodfellas. I just knew that not only was I going to make the team, but I was going to be a factor in the NBA. This is where my focus has been for the last 10 years. Convicted with Kuhn, 26, of conspiracy to commit racketeering and sport bribery and violation of the Travel Act were James Burke, 50, of New York, a reputed organized crime figure who is serving time for parole violation on a 1974 extortion conviction; Paul Mazzei, 37, of Pittsburgh, in jail on a narcotics conviction, and brothers Anthony Perla, 31, and Rocco Perla, 26, of Pittsburgh. At the close of the two-week trial, Alswanger was the last character witness who took the stand in Cobbs behalf. Bruce Pearl, a normal student in the class of 1982, is introduced and talks about the smart, diverse basketball players. Of course, the damn players had a million excuses, Henry Hill wrote in Sports Illustrateds bombshell story, How I Put The Fix In, which was the magazines cover story on February 16th, 1981. Said Hill, "He wanted me to fly up to Boston. He was hopeful that hed have another chance to make it in the NBA. and I were the victims of the same circumstances that were beyond our control. For the conspiracy to work, the men knew they would need the cooperation of other players on the team, according to the testimony of Henry Hill, a convicted felon and the key prosecution witness. The conspirators chose the January 17, 1979, game against Connecticut to implement this plan. To allay any suspicions of foul play, they decided to bet on Boston College to win by more than the point spread ("cover the spread") in a game that they were confident the Eagles would win handily. In this case, while the spread was as high as 5, the syndicate was able to lay just 2 points, and therefore pushed when Holy Cross won by 2. But I found out that I wouldnt be allowed to leave the United States because the government was going to bring me to trial.. He tried to subsist as a substitute teacher, and even caddied at the Fairview Country Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, the affluent suburbs where hed previously been arrested for stealing bikes as a kid. On Friday morning, March 23rd, the jury came back with a unanimous innocent verdict for Ernie Cobb, exonerating him of all charges. I have suffered. I said, If this dude has cash like that to burn and wants to give me $1,000 because I told him wed destroy Stonehill, sure, Ill take it. Maybe he was trying to cultivate a relationship with me and soften me up for something down the road. With his name swirling down the vortex of the mob cesspool from the moment the story broke, Ernie Cobb found it difficult to make a living. Des., University of Florida; MArch, Harvard GSD Professional interests: My passion lies in all things design but specifically in higher education, cultural and civic projects. Burke had Hill fly to Boston on November 16, 1978, to meet with Mazzei, Kuhn, Tony Perla, and any other member of the Eagles team interested in participating in their scheme. The jury is scared to be connected to this case because Burke was so powerful and violent in the mob. After narrowly missing the NBA - Cobb was among the last players cut by the New Jersey Nets in 1980 - he played professionally in Israel and later became a high school coach in Phoenix. The Providence game was played on December 6, 1978, and Boston College was favored to win by six to seven points. 197879 Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal. The other two kids made whatever choices they made, but look what was done to Ernie. Although Cobb and Sweeney received money and were a part of the scandal, the FBI did not prosecute them in the first round and were primarily focused on getting the mobsters. Hill flew into Boston, at the behest of Jimmy Burke, late in 1978 to meet with Mazzei, the Perlas, Kuhn and Sweeney at the Logan Airport Hilton and ensure that everything was in place. ESPNs 30-for-30 sports documentary series is many of our last hopes at seeing historic events from our favorite sports. Thats why I got into education and coaching. The test run for the scheme proved unsuccessful when Boston College's team established an early lead and ultimately won the game by nineteen points. Rick Kuhn, the former Boston College basketball player who was convicted last November, and sentenced last February for his involvement in the point shaving Cobb scores 8 points in the last minute of the game only to be blocked in the last seconds of the game. I never lied about that. Justice Department files complaint after officer fired for opioid use disorder. Today, any coach would be a goner for sure, cited at the very least for that catchall sin, lack of institutional control. Just ask former Ohio St. football coach Jim Tressel, who lost his job in 2011 thanks to a few players swapping some used cleats for free tattoos at a local parlor. The story read, in part, as follows: Ernie Cobb tossed in 1,760 points in a stellar basketball career at Boston College and only two other Eagles scored more. Danois, Alejandro. Sweeney was not charged. Other notable players selected in that draft included Sidney Moncrief, Bill Laimbeer, Bill Cartwright, Mark Eaton and Jim Paxson. But Im so proud of him because he picked his life back up and made the best of it. Hill reportedly cleared over $100,000 ($373,400 today) and bettors higher up the line were said to have made up to $250,000 ($933,400 today). Literature. I saw Ernie score 28 points against the Celtics in one of the final pre-season games when he was with the Nets, said Alswanger, Cobbs former high school coach. Sweeney has mostly shunned requests for interviews and book projects over the years, but decided to put his trust in documentary filmmaker Joe Lavine - a fellow native of Trenton, N.J. - who directed the piece for ESPN. The distinguished paper later retracted the story. Kuhn told people at Boston College later In a formal statement issued by its communications office, Boston College said the school's community "is saddened by the fact that one of our former student basketball players has been found guilty of the serious charges of which he was accused . He said he was brought in on the deal for his ability to maximize profits through his contacts in the gambling world. I had everything I could have possibly asked for. Class ring returned to Texas woman after missing for decades. After his junior campaign, where he converted 52% of his shots, an inordinate number for a small perimeter shooter, and averaged 22.8 points per game, he was recognized as one of the most lethal scorers in the country. Kuhn would be responsible for ensuring, by his play on the court, that Boston College fell short of the point spread. Although a participant in the scheme, Hill was granted immunity from prosecution and testified as a government witness. Lawyers for the defendants said they will appeal the verdict. I was this poor kid with no financial resources, going on trial with a member of the mob. The conspiracy unraveled in 1980 after Hill was arrested by New York State authorities on drug trafficking charges and was subsequently implicated in the Lufthansa heist, which occurred while the point-shaving scheme was underway. BOSTON - NOVEMBER 17: Rick Kuhn (#35) during Boston College men's basketball's 1978-1979 season. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. But Cobb denied receiving any money and he was not indicted. Rocco Perla was sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Ernie Cobb played professional basketball in Israel for 17 years, where he learned to speak fluent Hebrew. ESPN ESPN's latest 30 for 30 film tackles the Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal. Jason Avant Chief Operating Officer at ASTAR, Inc. I feel it.. But Kuhn was a player of limited ability, so he recruited his roommate and best friend, who also happened to be the most important player on the floor, the teams senior point guard, Jim Sweeney. The audience gets one on one interviews with each person to see the scandal from their perspective. It creates suspense as Hill is a mess on the stand and can barely speak under the pressure of snitching on his friends. The 197879 Boston College Eagles men's basketball team represented Boston College during the 197879 NCAA men's My parents have suffered. Playing for the Mob: The Story of College Kids Breaking Bad As a backup center with limited effect on a games outcome, he won over the mobsters by bringing Ernie Cobb, the teams leading scorer, and Sweeney, the point guard who controlled the ball for much of the game, into the fold. They treated me great. You realize that you cant play if you dont do this. According to Ernest Volkman, a crime journalist, Hill learned everything from Jimmy Burke and wanted to reward him with a lucrative scheme which became the BC scandal. With Roccos high school buddy Rick Kuhn entering his senior year at Boston College, where he was expected to be a contributor to the schools basketball team, the brothers figured they could make a ton of money. When he told Alswanger about the indictment, his old high school coach spoke sternly with him, as he'd done sometwelveyears earlier when Cobb had just returned home fromthe juvenile detention facility. It goes to show that crimes like these dont stay in the past, especially when they involve other peoples money. I hadnt seen Ernie for several years, Jack Hennessey, a psychologist at Boston College that had served as an informal academic advisor during Cobbs days as a student, told the New York Times in April of 1984. Later, Mazzei hears that Kuhn is able to start fixing games. Out of everything that happened, thats one thing that hurts me tremendously, Cobb said. They were touting me as the next sub-6-footer to have an impact in the NBA. The Globe, quoting an unnamed source in New York, said the three games in which point-shaving was alleged were a Feb.3 game against Fordham, a Feb. 6 game against St. Johns and a March 1 game in the ECAC Regional Playoffs against Connecticut. The problem was Cobb. After winning a few and losing a few, Hill and his gang came to view Cobb and Sweeney as unreliable game-fixers and eventually gave up the scam. According to Hill's testimony, he met with Kuhn and cocaptain Jim Sweeney in a hotel room near Boston's Logan Airport in November of 1978 to cement the deal. 197879 Boston College Eagles basketball season, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, "Key figures in the BC point shaving scandal", "James (Jimmy the Gent) Burke, Gangster, 64, of 'Wiseguy' Fame", "Kuhn Gets 10-Year Sentence In BC Point-Shaving Case", "Guilt by Wikipedia: How Joe Streater Became Falsely Attached To The Boston College Point Shaving Scandal", 1946 NFL Championship Game bribery scandal, 2009 Melbourne Football Club tanking scandal, 2012 Olympics women's doubles disqualifications, 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=197879_Boston_College_basketball_point-shaving_scandal&oldid=1112461833, 197879 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, College basketball controversies in the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 26 September 2022, at 12:41. 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