David Porter is an accomplished sportswriter and columnist with over 15 years of experience in the print and online news business. He has written extensively for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Trenton (NJ) Times, and Foxsports.com, as well as contributed to The Sporting News, Soccer america and Hockey Stars magazines. It was while David was on assignment that he met some of the major players in the Boston College point-shaving case. He lives in Trenton, NJ.
[This book] is an ambitious recap of the point-shaving scandal that
struck Boston College in the 1978-79 season...Porter's reporting is
meticulous and his narrative brisk...
*Chicago Tribune*
In this well-researched book, Porter...offers a disturbing glimpse
of a gambling scandal that involved the Mafia and the 1978-79
Boston College basketball team. [A] compelling story...
*Library Journal*
Big-time mobsters, All-American athletes and high-powered lawyers
are but a few of the intriguing characters who appear in Porter's
well-researched, action-packed account of the 1978-1979 Boston
College point-shaving scandal.
*Publishers Weekly*
...a lively book.
*Philadelphia Daily News*
Fixed is compelling drama.
*Chicago Sun-Times*
[An] eye-opening account of a point-shaving scandal involving the
Boston College basketball team in the 1978-79 season...Porter
exhaustively studies the entire history of this scandal.
*Sacramento Bee*
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