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Oct 14, 2021 · On first glance, it might be easy to look at something like Netflix's Bad Sport like the latest batch of true crime candy from the streamer.Volume 1 of the sports-doc series, debuted last week ...
- Brady Langmann
- Entertainment Editor
- blangmann@hearst.com
True crime and sports intersect in a docuseries that examines global controversies and scandals with firsthand accounts from those involved. Watch trailers & learn more.
- 1
- October 6, 2021
- 2 min
- Isaac 'Ice' Burton Boils The Whole Point-Shaving Scandal Down
- Smith, Silman and Gagliano All Went to Prison
- 'Bad Sport'
"Oh man," he recalls thinking when he realized things aren't going to work out as he'd hoped. "We done f ——-d up." Indeed they had. Although Sewell offers Smith, Burton and Joseph Gagliano, who set up the scheme, plenty of time to explain themselves, and they disagree on some of the particulars, no one denies the overall crimes — or Burton's assess...
But Smith wound up owing Benny Silman, a student and a bookie at ASU, more than $10,000 in gambling debts. Working with Gagliano, an entrepreneur, they fixed a game against Oregon State. Smith didn't want the team to lose the game, he told them, but he didn't have to — ASU could win, but not by more than six points. Smith and Burton, who he enliste...
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- Bill Goodykoontz
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Oct 19, 2021 · But back in 1994, that was definitely not the case, when Arizona State University’s men’s basketball team was caught up in a point-shaving scandal. That scandal is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, "Hoop Schemes," which is part of a series called "Bad Sport."
2021 | Maturity rating: 13+ | 1 Season | Documentary. True crime and sports intersect in a docuseries that examines global controversies and scandals with firsthand accounts from those involved. Watch all you want. JOIN NOW. From executive producers Tim Wardle ("Three Identical Strangers") and Adam Hawkins ("Don't F**k with Cats").
- 2021
- October 6, 2021
- 2 min
Oct 2, 2021 · Episode 1, titled “Hoop Schemes,” is maybe the most engrossing entry in the series, as we revisit the 1994 Arizona State University basketball point-shaving scandal, in a true-life story ...
Oct 19, 2021 · But back in 1994, that was definitely not the case, when Arizona State University’s men’s basketball team was caught up in a point-shaving scandal. That scandal is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, "Hoop Schemes," which is part of a series called "Bad Sport." It features interviews with the players at the center of the point shaving ...
