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Mar 27, 2020 · Airing on HBO after its canceled SXSW premiere, “The Scheme” tells the story of Christian Dawkins, a man whose ambition and business savvy became the focus of a major federal operation to bring down corruption in the NCAA.
Mar 31, 2020 · The Scheme: Directed by Pat Kondelis. With Christian Dawkins, Sean Miller, Will Wade. The true story of basketball insider Christian Dawkins, who hustled the FBI in a scandal that threatened to take down the NCAA.
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- Documentary, Crime
- Pat Kondelis
- 2020-03-31
The Scheme. TV-MA | documentaries | 1 HR 59 MIN | 2020. WATCH NOW Watch on HBO. Christian Dawkins opens up about how he wound up at the center of an extensive FBI investigation into college basketball corruption.
- The True Story Behind ‘The Scheme’, Explained
- Who Is Christian Dawkins?
- NCAA Scandal
‘The Scheme’ offers a deeper look into the 2017-2018 NCAA Division I men’s basketball corruption scandal. While the FBI had been investigating the scandal for over two years, it only became public following a series of high-profile arrests on September 27, 2017. The people involved included coaches from reputed basketball programs and Adidas employ...
The initial part of ‘The Scheme’ looks at Christian Dawkins’ life and how he ended up becoming a part of the biggest scandal in the history of collegiate basketball. Dawkins was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan. His father, Lou Dawkins was a well-known and respect basketball coach at Saginaw High School, while his mother, Latricia Vaughn-Dawkin...
Christian Dawkins ultimately decided to pursue his own thing, which led him to become a scapegoat for two undercover agents, who called themselves Jeff D’Angelo and Jill Bailey, and were posing to be investors. They wanted him to pay the coaches so that they could catch them all red-handed in wire-fraud and bribery. However, Dawkins resisted statin...
Mar 30, 2020 · If you’re missing the NCAA tournament, HBO’s “The Scheme” will make you less wistful – or at least, provide a reminder of big-money college basketball’s grimy underbelly, exploring a corruption...
- 3 min
- Review Brian Lowry
Mar 30, 2020 · How a kid from Saginaw, Michigan ended up at the center of a two-year undercover FBI investigation into college basketball is the subject of an upcoming HBO Sports documentary The Scheme. The...
Mar 12, 2020 · There’s more to the story.Documenting Christian Dawkin's involvement in the biggest criminal case in collegiate sports history, The Scheme premieres March 31...
- 2 min
- 183.7K
- HBO
