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BOSTON - NOVEMBER 17: Rick Kuhn (#35) during Boston College men's basketball's 1978-1979 season. 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. 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. Thats the real strength of his story, that you pick yourself up and make something of yourself.. He really set the tone in terms of being a strong, dynamic, willful player that wondrous talents like John Bagley, Michael Adams and Dana Barros, all of whom went on to play ball in the NBA after their careers at B.C., followed. 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! All Kuhn had to do was ensure that the Eagles fell short of the point spread in the games that they bet on. The fixing begins to wear into Sweeney, who confides in his roommates but never seeks out the proper authority. Bowies reputation was immediately sullied and he subsequently lost his job playing pro ball in Europe when the story broke. I opened up the door and it was these guys from the F.B.I., said Cobb. I understand that they want to disassociate themselves from the scandal. Several college coaches, contacted at the time that news of the investigation broke, said point shaving -- when the favored team tries to win by less than the point spread -- in basketball is almost impossible to detect and that there is no way of telling how much, if any, point shaving goes undetected. You gotta tell me the truth, because I gotta know how to go on this?. 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 syndicate was very happy with this result, and Kuhn was given cash to distribute to the players for their efforts. When Henry Hill started threatening Kuhn and Sweeney, promising that they couldnt play with broken limbs, the players, according to Hill, claimed that they were doing their best, but the scheme would never work unless Ernie Cobb was in on the fix. He rebounded well and was a good outlet It was one of the most tremendous feelings Id ever experienced.. We get home, I open it up, and theres $1,000 in there.. Hill brought in his mentor, Jimmy Burke, to finance the operation and set up a network of bookies who could advance the financial potential of the scheme. Sweeney purposefully misses a free throw to help the fixers win even though he is the best free-throw shooter in the nation. 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. 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. will air the latest installment of its acclaimed 30 For 30 series with a look back at the infamous Boston College basketball point shaving scandal from the 1978-79 season. 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. Rick Kuhn was an older player who was friends with Sweeney and a tough, street smart kid with a different upbringing than Sweeney. Rocco says Sweeney told him he missed it to avoid a pair of cement shoes. 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. Being at Boston College, when I first got there, was so amazing, said Cobb. But that had nothing to do with shaving points., At the time, I was nave, Cobb continued. It was all so positive.. Its gonna be no contest. Overall, the real end to the Boston College point-shaving scandal is the trial, the main conflict of the film. The jury of eight women and four men reached its verdict after three days of deliberations and a trial that lasted five weeks. All of those guys walkedin his footsteps., He was the African-American guard in the modern era of B.C. 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. But it wasnt a coincidence that one day, the F.B.I shows up asking me about gambling, and the next day Im no longer with the team. And look what he did to the lives of those kids. All of Henry Hills and the Perla brothers information was coming from Rick Kuhn, and who knows what he was saying to them to cover his own skin., (Jim Sweeney, Photo Credit: tampabay.com), Kuhn and Sweeney got in over their heads, Cobb continued. All Kuhn had to do was ensure that the Eagles fell short of the point spread in the games that they bet on. So, in very basic terms, if B.C. was favored to win a game by ten points, Kuhn had to make sure, if the game was in play with the mobsters and the bookies, that they won by less than ten in order for the gamblers to make money. They mentioned the $1,000 that Rocco Perla gave my girlfriend and I told them the truth. Theyd taken my passport and I had to stay here and face these charges, said Cobb. The same channels would be used for the passing of the point spread from Burke and Hill to the players. The film goes on to show how nobody really made a lot of money from the fix. 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. Theyre no match for us. He told me, Well good, I plan on betting on those games and if you guys win and it turns out like that, Ill take care of you., Man, I was one of the most recognizable athletes on campus and people would come up and talk to me all the time, people I didnt know, Cobb continued. When I think about my journey, it brings tears to my eyes. Everything Id worked so hard for was coming to fruition.. You may opt-out by. At the close of the two-week trial, Alswanger was the last character witness who took the stand in Cobbs behalf. Today, Cobbs relationship with Boston College remains strained. hoops that blazed a trail, Mills continued. It goes to show that crimes like these dont stay in the past, especially when they involve other peoples money. NEW YORK -- Former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn, jailed for his 1981 conviction in a point-shaving scandal, has asked for a reduction of his 10-year 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. It is unclear how much money the players involved in the point-shaving scheme were paid. He said he would have done that if the sides were reversed. The December 16 game against Harvard was chosen as the second test for the scheme. Art. He was determined to prove that he could do the work, which would enable him to further chase his athletic dreams. Director Joe Lavine goes on to feature many references and clips of the movie. In early February, Boston College was scheduled to play two New York State teams, Fordham and St. John's. 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. 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. The police have Henry Hill as an informant in hopes that he will have information on his boss, Jimmy Burke and other mobsters involved in the Lufthansa robbery, where five million dollars was stolen in the heist. 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. Hill turned state's evidence in exchange for avoiding prison and possible execution by Burke and the Lucchese family. They showed me these pictures of these mafia guys and were asking me, Do you know him? They left, and that was that. 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. Paul Mazzei explains that there is no time to change your mind in their business. He killed people. I feel it.. The conviction of former Boston College basketball player Richard Kuhn for his involvement in the point shaving scandal during the 1978-79 basketball season was But, as Sweeney points out, the government didnt need to prove that point shaving actually happened, just that a conspiracy to shave them had. 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 was like, You gotta be kidding me! Jim Sweeney and Rick Kuhns names werent mentioned anywhere. But its the points that Cobb and teammate Michael Bowie didnt score during the 1978-1979 season which has spawned a federal investigation. 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. My parents have suffered. I want to be disassociated from it as well. Golub was a brilliant lawyer, and he told me that hed have to interview Ernie first to see if he was gonna take the case on. The headlines in Boston, and around the country, said that Cobb and fellow senior Michael Bowie, the teams two African-American stars, were the players that were implicated. I didnt think anything of it. The scheme was hit or miss early on. The Perla brothers mobilized a betting syndicate to maximize their potential gain from the scheme. This is an important part of the documentary because it shows the respect they have for one another regardless of the past. Hill gave up everybody including the players involved. The syndicate was able to lay nine points when the game was first available to be bet, and therefore pushed. Result is the outcome of the syndicate's bets. The Boston College case arose out of the Lufthansa investigation. It had to cost around $200,000 at the time to defend me.. The scheme continued to work successfully in the December 23 game against UCLA. Said Hill, "I asked the players which of the upcoming games they felt we could shave. A grand jury indicted Burke, Mazzei, Kuhn, and the Perla brothers. I didnt know what that was all about. Ernie Cobb played professional basketball in Israel for 17 years, where he learned to speak fluent Hebrew. The problem was 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 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. He continues to be involved in sports and is in an older mens basketball league that competes around the world. Everybody testified against him. At this point in the film, we stray away from the actual point-shaving and more into the consequences and investigation after the fact. The documentary, narrated by Ray Liotta (who portrayed Hill in the film), was set up so that the viewer needed to watch Goodfellas beforehand to understand many of the references in the story. It creates suspense as Hill is a mess on the stand and can barely speak under the pressure of snitching on his friends. On Friday morning, March 23rd, the jury came back with a unanimous innocent verdict for Ernie Cobb, exonerating him of all charges. 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. 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). Kuhn, 28, was one of five people found guilty of conspiracy to engage in racketeering and other charges that stemmed from a point-shaving scheme hatched for the 1978-79 school season. If you missed Part I, you can read it here. Those later betters on St. John's lost money because they laid more than the eventual nine point margin of victory. Apparently, someone called into the online editor the second to inform them of the "miss." When he returned to the United States, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he became a Special Education teacher and high school basketball coach. ESPN Looks Back On Boston College Point Shaving Scandal And A Player Speaks Out. Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 1 Oct. 2014, www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2014/10/01/espn-looks-back-on-boston-college-point-shaving-scandal-and-a-player-speaks-out/#3f03989d26b8. 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. Mazzei and Tony Perla were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. 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. Testifying for the government, Sweeney acknowledged meeting with Hill but said that although he agreed to participate in the scheme he never intended to go through with the deal. Kuhn and two money men were Cobb, for his part, was tried for conspiracy and acquitted. For Cobb, the result was far worse. The former friends work hard to cast blame and the true conversations that went on between the mobsters and players will never be discovered. Kuhn would be responsible for ensuring, by his play on the court, that Boston College fell short of the point spread. Regardless of what the audience thinks, the eyes of the law he is not guilty. But conspiring to fix college basketball games got him 20 years. According to the Boston Globe, Judge Henry Bramwell, who set sentencing for January 8, 1982, told the jury, "I agree with your verdict." Even though he was not guilty, Boston College has erased them from their memory. won the gangsters some serious money by falling short of the spread. I think you could poll a lot of people in the business and the Boston College scandal is off their radar. You understand? The jury is scared to be connected to this case because Burke was so powerful and violent in the mob. She helped tutor me, and encouraged me through some rough spots. He says that Hill once referenced his girlfriend Maura (now his wife) in one of his threats, asking Sweeney how would your honey feel if she saw your --- hanging in a bracelet? He also says that other mob clichs like references to cement shoes are not just the stuff of Hollywood. 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. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART DETAILS Restrictions: No commercial uses without permission. The mobsters Paul Mazzei and Henry Hill met in a nearby jail stayed in touch after serving their time. It wasnt an absolute disaster but it was a cousin. The distinguished paper later retracted the story. NEW YORK -- Former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn, jailed for his 1981 conviction in a point-shaving scandal, has asked for a reduction of his 10-year prison sentence. Hes a good person. Ernie Cobb is also introduced, a senior, team captain, and Boston Colleges top scorer. So, in very basic terms, if B.C. Hill and Burke both were convicted of extortion in 1972 in Florida and have been prime suspects in the Dec. 11, 1978, robbery of almost $9 million from the Lufthansa Cargo Terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. 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.. Whats going on? 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. The characters and events were later immortalized by the actors Ray Liotta and Robert DeNiro in the classic film, Goodfellas. 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. We have decided to cover the most scandalous of all 30-for-30s, Playing for the Mob. Kuhn grew up to be 6-foot-8, and signed a minor league contract with the Cincinnati Reds right after finishing high school. Even after being informed of the investigation, he said he noticed nothing unusual after reviewing films of the games. It was national news that brought Cobb, Sweeney, and Kuhn under massive headlines. The 80-minute documentary tells how BC forward Rick Kuhn conspired with two of his hoodlum friends from Pittsburgh to bet against the Eagles. After Cobb was not charged, he thought he was finally past the sordid affair. The player was Kuhn, a reserve forward on the team. The Worst Fix Ever. ESPN, ESPN Internet Ventures, 3 Oct. 2014, www.espn.com/espn/chalk/story/_/id/11633538/betting-chronicling-worst-fix-ever-1978-79-bc-point-shaving-scandal. (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. Other times, they didnt deliver as promised, which caused some very dangerous and ill-tempered men to lose large sums of cash. The audience gets one on one interviews with each person to see the scandal from their perspective. Sweeney agreed to cooperate claiming he was forced to help with the fix, Kuhn came clean about the whole operation, and Cobb was cut from the Nets after the FBI visited him despite him not having any real information. When he finished with his testimony, he made a beeline straight for the restroom. 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. The players as well as the mobsters believe that this failed fix would be their last, the players graduate and the mobsters move on. 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. Mazzeis connection to Kuhn was through fellow gangsters Rocco and Tony Pearla. I was forthright and honest with them. Zimmerman also asked the court to consider Kuhn's 'crime-free background' and his cooperation with federal authorities in the Cobb case. It is similar to how they captured Al Capone on tax evasion, the smaller of his many crimes that would ultimately put him away. He went against his lawyers advice and fought back and managed to win his case. We were all so excited for him. Music. We had a good old time. They all have different versions of the story, but regardless games are going to start being fixed. Rick Kuhn, the former Boston College basketball player who was convicted last November, and sentenced last February for his involvement in the point shaving There were a lot of rich kids who went to Boston College. Boston College Accused of Point Shaving, was the big headline on the UPI wire. 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. But Cobb denied receiving any money and he was not indicted. This is Part II of The Shadow League's feature story on former Boston College basketball player Ernie Cobb. 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. No source was given for this claim, with Streater's last appearance for the team occurring in the 197778 season, but this claim remained for more than five years, resulting in a number of media sites including Bleacher Report, ESPN and Yahoo News erroneously naming him as a point-shaver.[5]. Out of everything that happened, thats one thing that hurts me tremendously, Cobb said. U.S. District Judge Henry Bramwell set sentencing for Jan. 8. Rick Kuhn, 55, passed away peacefully on September 12, 2022, in his home in West Fargo, ND, surrounded by his family. 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. 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. The goal for making some real money is to get the character a TV gig with ESPN, NBC Sports, or another major sports network. While Jim Sweeney is also introduced, hes the other captain from a better upbringing: the poster child for BC. Greater Boston. 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. 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. I admitted to receiving that money, and spending it. I thought he might have been a student, because he was young and I saw him hanging around Rick Kuhn all the time. On August 12, 2008, an anonymous user edited the Wikipedia article on the scandal, naming former player Joe Streater as an accomplice in the point-shaving, recruited by Kuhn alongside Sweeney. He was a murderer and a horrible human being. Columbia University names Nemat Shafik as first woman president. Film. I was nervous because I didnt know what was going to happen. And now, here I was on that same floor, pumped sky high, giving my defender buckets! Coupled with the narration being done by Ray Liotta, the actor that played Henry Hill in the movie, adding to the films overall gangster aesthetic. Fourteen hours later, I arrived in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.. This is a BETA experience. She also recalled Kuhn saying that Cobb was too into his own game to cooperate with the betting thing, but the New York gangsters were adamant about getting him involved. 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. The narrator explains that the strength of how Henry Hills testimony is would determine if Burke was going to be convicted. Intentional point shaving on the floor was never proven, and if Hill hadnt later confessed the scheme to prosecutors after getting busted for his other crimes, the whole ordeal might have passed without notice. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. The next step in the saga is how these players get connected to the mob. Tennessee church holding prayer as FAA investigates plane crash that killed 4 members. Literature. All because, he says, of those five crinkled $100 bills dropped at his feet one day in the locker room. 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