would play a few games each year, Cobb was awash with emotions. 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 conspirators chose the January 17, 1979, game against Connecticut to implement this plan. I called my buddy Frank Melzer, who was an attorney, said Alswanger. II. The Shadow League, 29 May 2017, theshadowleague.com/30-years-after-his-exoneration-former-bc-hoops-star-ernie-cobb-is-still-fighting-to-clear-his-name-pt-ii/. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The Justice Department Wednesday filed a complaint against a sheriff's department in Cumberland County, Tenn., alleging it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when firing an officer with an opioid use disorder. Bruce Pearl, a normal student in the class of 1982, is introduced and talks about the smart, diverse basketball players. They left, and that was that. While Hill was trying to bury Burke, Sweeney was trying to bury Kuhn. The Nets coaches were telling me, Coach, hes gonna be a great pro., I had a great camp with the Nets and was poised to make the team, said Cobb. They greet each other like old friends; there is no bitterness between them. But Cobb denied receiving any money and he was not indicted. You gotta tell me the truth, because I gotta know how to go on this?. On June 23rd, 1983, more than four years after hed played his final game at Boston College, Ernie Cobb was indicted and charged with taking cash bribes to alter the outcomes of games against Harvard, Rhode Island and Fordham. Keeping Score: Close Shave. Greenfield Recorder, Greenfield Recorder, 27 Apr. As a freshman, he played sparingly and averaged 4.5 points per game while the Eagles finished with a disappointing 9-17 overall record. Teammate Rick Kuhn, a former minor league baseball player with connections to small-time Pittsburgh mobsters, conspired with the mobsters to initiate the point-shaving However, Kuhn saw only limited playing time. The Boston Globe reported on Friday that Cobb and Bowie are targets of the federal probe into allegations of point-shaving in three Eagles games. 197879 Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal. Sweeney knows hell probably never completely escape the association to the scandal, something he learned to live with years ago. The campus was so beautiful. 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. Prosecutors say man accused in wife's disappearance Googled how to dispose of a body. At the close of the two-week trial, Alswanger was the last character witness who took the stand in Cobbs behalf. I got through it on my own, and I didnt get whacked, is how he sums it up. 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. But my high school coach got his friends to take my case, pro bono. He just kept swishing them in, 30 or 35 points, I dont remember., Hill went on to say, And they (Kuhn and Sweeney) were still saying, We got to have Cobb. I realized that and so I passed the word through Tony (Perla), At all costs, talk to him. Next thing I heard Cobb was all set, but it was going to take another $2,500 for his share. She helped tutor me, and encouraged me through some rough spots. He took advantage of an opportunity that surfaced when a pro team from Israel offered him a spot on their roster. Overall, the real end to the Boston College point-shaving scandal is the trial, the main conflict of the film. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The husband accused in the New Year's Day disappearance of Massachusetts mother of three Ana Walshe made a series of Internet searches about dismembering bodies and disposing of them, prosecutors said in court Wednesday. It wasnt an absolute disaster but it was a cousin. Being at Boston College, when I first got there, was so amazing, said Cobb. The Boston College case arose out of the Lufthansa investigation. But what was I going to do, take it to court?It was here that they began telling Perla we would have to have Cobb. And yeah, I took that money. (Joe Dennehy/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Save PURCHASE A LICENSE Get personalized pricing by telling us when, where, and how you want to use this asset. Testifying for the defense, Boston College basketball Coach Tom Davis said at no point during the 1978-79 season did he notice any of his players giving anything less than a 100 percent effort. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A Memphis-area church is holding prayer services Wednesday for four of its members who were killed in a plane crash in Texas. 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. The abbreviated version of events reads like this:the Perlas brought in a Pittsburgh hood named Paul Mazzei, who contacted his friend Henry Hill, an associate of New Yorks Lucchese crime family that had befriended him during a stretch in federal prison. 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Although a participant in the scheme, Hill was granted immunity from prosecution and testified as a government witness. He hugged his tearful mother before walking out into the hallway for a few moments. However, as noted below, the scheme also worked in games where the Eagles were expected to lose anyway, with them shaving points so that the syndicate could bet on the other team winning by more than the point spread. 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. "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. According to the Boston Globe, Judge Henry Bramwell, who set sentencing for January 8, 1982, told the jury, "I agree with your verdict." By my junior year, it was show-time, said Cobb. Rick Kuhn, the former Boston College basketball player who was convicted last November, and sentenced last February for his involvement in the point shaving But its one of the most famous in sports history, to which Sweeneys name will be forever linked. Towards the end of the film, we see Hill and Mizzou, one of the people Hill snitched on, are meeting at a restaurant 30 years later. And he also cultivated interest, in the area's black community, in terms of being engaged and intrigued bywhat was going on with Boston Colleges basketball program. Mazzei and the Perlas were particularly hopeful that Hill would enlist the support of his associate, James Burke, to finance the payments to the players and to set up a network of bookmakers who were in on the scheme. 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. Kuhn, who ultimately served four years in prison for conspiracy and racketeering, hatched a plan with Hill associates Tony Perla, his brother Rocco Perla, and Paul Mazzei to shave points - losing by more than the point spread or winning by less than the point spread - in several BC games between December 1978 and March 1979. The government presented telephone records showing evidence of extensive communications between the conspirators during the 197879 season and records provided by Western Union and various hotels which further corroborated government testimony. 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. Supreme Court mulls questions about students' accessibility rights. He worked hard in class. While Jim Sweeney is also introduced, hes the other captain from a better upbringing: the poster child for BC. I have an incredible circle of supportive friends and have met some amazing people who have impacted my life in ways that I cant even begin to describe., Mr. A former Boston College basketball player and four other men were charged yesterday with conspiring to fix six basketball games during the 1978-79 season by shaving points. 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. When the evidence came up at the first trial, it didnt match up, but they still came after me a few years later. I didnt think anything of it. Still, he feels lucky. At one point, he said accepted $500 from Kuhn, but only to give the illusion of cooperating in the scheme. I never lied about that. But by his sophomore year, when he was inserted into the starting lineup, it was apparent that the 5-foot-11 scorer brought a dimension to the Boston College squad that it sorely needed when he averaged 17.4 points per game. It was the government's contention that the scheme originated when Mazzei contacted Burke and said he had a friend in Pittsburgh who knew a player on the Boston College team and that there was a possibility for a betting scheme in which they could make thousands of dollars. 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. Jim Sweeney admits that Kuhn gave him cash. Twice, in 1951 and 1961, the sport was rocked by scandal. I have suffered. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. We get home, I open it up, and theres $1,000 in there.. This is an important part of the documentary because it shows the respect they have for one another regardless of the past. It had to cost around $200,000 at the time to defend me.. Hes made a prosperous living in the computer and electronics business - his small independent brokerage that sold parts and accessories to manufacturers did over $50 million in annual revenue at its peak - all while playing competitive basketball around the world into his 50s. Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories. But for many, there is a fierce bitterness that still lingers to this day. 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. Rick was born on October 14, 1966, in Jamestown, ND, to Timothy Kuhn and Marretta (Deede) Kuhn. The former friends work hard to cast blame and the true conversations that went on between the mobsters and players will never be discovered. Im stuck. (In some of the Boston College games cited, the Eagles were underdogs and lost by more than the point spread.). So I guess the thought process was, Well, if there were criminal activities going on, it had to be the brothers! My name and picture, and Michael Bowies as well, was on the front page of every newspaper in the country.. The characters and events were later immortalized by the actors Ray Liotta and Robert DeNiro in the classic film, Goodfellas. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A class ring that went missing decades ago has been returned to its owner. Heading into his senior season in 1978-1979, as the team captain, Cobb was hoping that he could lead his team to the NCAA Tournament. Sweeney purposefully misses a free throw to help the fixers win even though he is the best free-throw shooter in the nation. This offers a students perspective of how they never thought their team could have been fixing teams. U.S. District Judge Henry Bramwell set sentencing for Jan. 8. They contacted a local friend, Paul Mazzei, who was known to have influence within major New York gambling circles. Web197879 Boston College Eagles men's basketball team. He traveled throughout the world, getting paid to play the game that he loved. Convinced that Cobb was innocent after his mentee walked him through everything that had transpired, and certain that he was being used by the federal government to send more organized crime figures to prison, Alswanger began working the phones. Sweeney took out one of those little schedule cards, circled the games he thought we could fool around with, and gave the card to me. Thus, for example, if participating bookmakers determined Boston College to be an eight-point favorite in a particular game, Kuhn would be paid a bonus, usually $2,500, if they won by less than eight points. This scene gives the audience insight into the type of person Henry Hill was and how hard it was to testify against someone like Burke. He quickly thrived and was recognized as one of the leagues best players. I was this poor kid with no financial resources, going on trial with a member of the mob. Seven schools and more than 30 players were implicated in the 1951 probe; more than 20 schools were involved in the 1961 incidents. After the investigation was completed, Cobb was not named as a defendant in the initial trial, U.S. vs Burke, which opened to a circus of media attention on October 27th, 1981. When he first stepped on the hallowed parquet floor at the legendary Boston Garden, where B.C. A fitness fanatic who augmented his training by swimming and riding his bicycle very long distances, Cobb hopped on his ten-speed shortly after the indictment was announced and began pedaling. Kuhn tells Sweeney that the mobsters in New York and Pittsburgh want this win and that this will be the last fix. Later, Mazzei hears that Kuhn is able to start fixing games. The December 16 game against Harvard was chosen as the second test for the scheme. The audience gets one on one interviews with each person to see the scandal from their perspective. Zimmerman also asked the court to consider Kuhn's 'crime-free background' and his cooperation with federal authorities in the Cobb case. Joe Beaulieu, the starting center on the 1978-79 Boston College team, also testified he was approached by Kuhn to participate in the plan, but he said he rejected the proposal. He made other African-American ballers feel like they could go there and really showcase what they could do on a national level. Ernie Cobb is also introduced, a senior, team captain, and Boston Colleges top scorer. If you missed Part I, you can read it here. 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? Dean Smith, basketball coach at the University of North Carolina and the president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, said last night it is standard procedure for coaches to speak to team members about the possibility of point-shaving overtures and to encourage them to report any efforts to persuade them to manipulate scores. 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. They all have different versions of the story, but regardless games are going to start being fixed. Hill stated that, at the time, he and Burke were watching the game on television at Burke's home in Queens, and Burke put his foot through the television in anger at having lost $50,000 ($186,700 today). I was forthright and honest with them. In 1978, Rick Kuhn was in his final season at Boston College,amarginal player with little going for him. 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. Kuhn went on to live a quiet life only talking about the scandal to high school students encouraging them to not make the same mistakes. They would also ensure protection for the enterprise in the event that the unsuspecting bookmakers, all of whom had toughs at their disposal to collect unpaid debts, discovered they were being swindled. 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. Class ring returned to Texas woman after missing for decades. Kuhn's sentence was the heaviest ever imposed on a college player convicted of point shaving. The Providence game was played on December 6, 1978, and Boston College was favored to win by six to seven points. Paul Mazzei explains that there is no time to change your mind in their business. The fact that I went to court and fought for my name, that I stood up for myself and cleared my name, that I was exonerated and acquitted, its a travesty that Im still associated with this., My name is indelibly linked to it, Cobb continued. The film begins by showcasing the classic movie Goodfellas and how this story is all wrapped up in the real-life events that inspired the movie. I just knew that not only was I going to make the team, but I was going to be a factor in the NBA. Sweeney was not charged. I opened up the door and it was these guys from the F.B.I., said Cobb. The scheme continued to work successfully in the December 23 game against UCLA. The players as well as the mobsters believe that this failed fix would be their last, the players graduate and the mobsters move on. Hill gave up everybody including the players involved. As he walked across the scenic campus, marveled at the schools architectural splendor or ate until his hearts content in the dining hall, hed often pause to quietly give thanks for his fortunate circumstances. Riper, Tom Van. indictments charged against them. For Cobb, the result was far worse. I was a senior in high school when Ernie Cobb was a senior at Boston College and Id heard that he was a very good player, said Lemuel Mills, a Boston area hoops aficionado, coach, community mentor and historian. BC basketball players Rick Kuhn, Joe Streater and Jim Sweeney were persuaded to fix nine Eagles games during the season. So, in very basic terms, if B.C. He graduated on time with a degree in sociology. They treated me great. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Boeing's sustainable flight demonstrator project won a $425 million award Wednesday from NASA, as the company aims to roll out green single-aisle airliners by the end of the decade. Hill revealed his involvement in the point-shaving scheme, offering to relate the full story if federal officials would guarantee him full immunity and would agree to intercede on his behalf to convince state officials to drop the drug charges pending in state court. With the focus limited to the specific players involved, BCs basketball program didnt suffer at all. In the summer of 1978, Rocco Perla and his older brother Anthony, back in Pittsburgh, were the ones who initially conceived the point-shaving scheme that would later rock the college basketball world. The problem was Cobb. They mentioned the $1,000 that Rocco Perla gave my girlfriend and I told them the truth. I never got to realize my dream of playing in the NBA, but Ive been all over the globe and have experienced so many different and beautiful cultures. When he arrived on campus in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Cobbs internal mantra was, I gotta stay eligible. With those persistent affirmations dancing through his mind, he took his academic responsibilities seriously from day one. When I think about my journey, it brings tears to my eyes. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A man who posed as a cannabis billionaire plead guilty Wednesday to securities fraud for lying to investors about his wealth, education and business. Fake cannabis billionaire pleads guilty to securities fraud. 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). We also see Liotta, as Hill, trying to impress Robert DeNiro, who portrayed the mobster Jimmy Burke. The Texas woman who owned the ring thought she had misplaced it, but it was actually stolen and admitted as evidence in a 1986 drug trial. 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. The audience is left to make their own judgment on how involved Sweeney and Cobb were in the fixes, but Sweeney missing a free throw when he is the best in the nation is some serious evidence of his involvement. With Sweeney making it out with no sentence, the mystery still remains of how involved he really was. Im going off on the basketball court, scoring like crazy, the gamblers are losing their shirts, and they start talking about, We have to have Cobb. Anybody thats ever seen me play knows that I was only stuck in one gear, and that was super-charged-turbo! Rocco Perla received a four-year sentence and Rick Kuhn was sentenced to a ten-year bid as well, which was later reduced to 28 months. Justice Department files complaint after officer fired for opioid use disorder. Director Joe Lavine goes on to feature many references and clips of the movie. (Rick Kuhn, Photo Credit: bostonglobe.com). It is quite a ride, so please, enjoy it. We were all so excited for him. I took every single practice and every single game seriously, said Cobb. The government also contended Kuhn tried to recruit other players, including the team's leading scorer, Ernie Cobb, and Hill said in an article in Sports Illustrated -- for which he was paid $10,000 -- that he made payments to Cobb for his cooperation. Hes a good person. We get footage of the games and the scheme continued, but no one knew just how much the fixers made. Staff. If youve seen the famous mafia flick, you probably remember Liotta making several references to his Pittsburgh connections, his main partners in a drug ring, among other things. Enraged by their gambling loss, the Perla brothers, along with Mazzei, Burke, and Hill, decided to recruit additional Eagles players to enhance their control over the outcome of the games. 30 Years After His Exoneration, Former BC Hoops Star Ernie Cobb Is Still Fighting to Clear His Name Pt. He said he was brought in on the deal for his ability to maximize profits through his contacts in the gambling world. The Perla brothers were small-time gamblers who saw the upcoming 197879 Boston College Eagles basketball season as a perfect opportunity to earn a lot of money. The film goes on to show how nobody really made a lot of money from the fix. Lawyers for the defendants said they will appeal the verdict. Fellow player Michael Bowie begins to ask questions, but Sweeney argues that they are still winning. Said Hill, "I asked the players which of the upcoming games they felt we could shave. But, as Sweeney points out, the government didnt need to prove that point shaving actually happened, just that a conspiracy to shave them had. Theres never been any mob money riding on the outcomes, as far as anyone knows. While the line may have been as low as 13 at some point, the syndicate had to lay 15, and therefore lost their bet when Rhode Island won by only 13. 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. It would fit with ESPN, which reports sports but also has an underlying self-deprecating humor, is basically his pitch. His testimony continued terribly, he was a nervous wreck, he was rambling about unnecessary information and he couldnt even look in Burkes direction. 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. Thats the real strength of his story, that you pick yourself up and make something of yourself.. Boston College's basketball team ended their 197879 season with a 229 record. 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. 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. He is a participant in the Federal Witness Protection Program and is receiving government protection in exchange for his testimony. I was relishing that moment. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court hears Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools to rule on financial compensation for a deaf student who was not provided proper learning support. Bets in this column are given in the format ", Winner is given as either Opp or BC and the margin of victory. They were just doing their jobs. Rocco comes up to me and says, Hey, sometimes I bet on games and I wanna know how you think you guys are gonna do against Stonehill and Bentley? said Cobb. Man, I would watch Jo Jo White, Dave Cowens and John Havlicek playing on television, on that same famous floor where Bill Russell and Bob Cousy and all of those great Celtics teams won all those championships, said Cobb. This is important because it shows how it was a poorly run operation. Cobb, for his part, was tried for conspiracy and acquitted. Kuhn was thus expected to keep the score below the six- to seven-point margin. Boeing's fuel-efficient aircraft design wins $425 million award from NASA. Henry Hill avoided going to prison, and he went off into the sunset of the governments Witness Protection Program, said Alswanger. Their strategy was effective Boston College, a five-point favorite, covered the spread with a 9080 win over Connecticut. Sweeney had enough of that over a few months 35 years ago to last a lifetime. I dont know what went down because I wasnt involved. 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