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Crimes, Championships and Big Time Sports at the University of Kansas

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers. Investigators found that for more than five years Jones and a small ring of university officials had conspired to loot the university of $2 million in tickets, reselling them for $3-5 million. In what was perhaps the biggest scandal in college sports history, all seven members of the "Kansas Ticket Gang" pleaded guilty to RICO Act indictments. Five went to prison--two were given probation for turning state's evidence.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-11-06
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476677873

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Kansas Ticket Gang1. Rodney Gets a Job2. Lawrence, the University of Kansas and Basketball3. Basketball4. Changing Athletics Directors, Coaches and Conferences5. Tickets: A Brief Biography6. Charlette Coble and the University of Oklahoma7. Rodney “Tickets” Jones: Ticket Whisperer of Mass Street8. Junction City9. Money and the AD Shuffle10. Charlette: When Home Becomes Work and Work Becomes Home11. Perkins12. Charlette Comes to Town13. It Worked!14. Complimentary Tickets and Ticket Ownership15. The Ticket Gang Scales Up16. The Greatest Year in the History of KU Athletics17. Big Trouble Visits Big D18. Coming Apart19. Everybody Knows20. Cooperation21. Adieu, Lew, Adieu22. Indictment: A True Bill23. Here Comes the Judge for the Family Blubaugh24. Here Comes the Judge for Rodney “Tickets” Jones25. Judgment for Kassie Liebsch and Ben Kirtland III26. Reciprocity at Home: Tickets for Tickets27. The Oklahoma Connection and Poor Accounting28. Summing Up: The Box Score and the Original RulesEpilogueAppendix A: Code of Ethical Conduct, Kansas Athletics, Inc.Appendix B: Federal Sentencing GuidelinesChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“Frederickson provides a highly detailed account of the systematic theft of basketball tickets that occurred at the University of Kansas over a span of 16 years. The book is so meticulously researched that at points the backstory and ancillary facts almost obscure the thrilling story of hubris, deceit, and corruption, motivated by greed but also by thirst for power and reputation. ... Frederickson leaves no subject unexplained, from the story of the ticket scandal itself to the history of Lawrence, Kansas. ... the story is told with so much passion that the book is hard to put down. ...recommended”—Choice