On Friday morning, March 23rd, the jury came back with a unanimous innocent verdict for Ernie Cobb, exonerating him of all charges. I was like, Yeah, whatever. Sure enough, a few weeks later, he hands my girlfriend an envelope. Jason Avant Chief Operating Officer at ASTAR, Inc. Boston College Accused of Point Shaving, was the big headline on the UPI wire. But its the points that Cobb and teammate Michael Bowie didnt score during the 1978-1979 season which has spawned a federal investigation. 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). 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. Boston College's basketball team ended their 197879 season with a 229 record. 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. He didn't want to be bothered with these kids anymore." By my junior year, it was show-time, said Cobb. The fixers changed the original plan and bet on Holy Cross, but the players were told this right before the game. Investigators find phone records from Pittsburgh to Burke that allow them to connect the point-shaving scheme to him. Everything Id worked so hard for was coming to fruition.. According to the Boston Globe, Judge Henry Bramwell, who set sentencing for January 8, 1982, told the jury, "I agree with your verdict." This scandal did not end with the regular basketball season, it continued to affect and alter these players and gangsters lives for years after. The Boston College case arose out of the Lufthansa investigation. The Boys of Dunbar, A Story of Love, Hope and Basketball. But by the next summer, in 1980, he sparkled while playing for the New Jersey Nets during the pre-season. But its one of the most famous in sports history, to which Sweeneys name will be forever linked. Theyd taken my passport and I had to stay here and face these charges, said Cobb. 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. 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. 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. They were just doing their jobs. Sweeney has won several FIMBA tournaments as a player in the 50-plus division. 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. It is quite a ride, so please, enjoy it. 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. Sports. With the focus limited to the specific players involved, BCs basketball program didnt suffer at all. 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 This is where my focus has been for the last 10 years. For added effect, ESPN landed Liotta, whose character served as a narrator in Goodfellas, to narrate its film. Burke instructed Hill to warn the players to keep to their end of the deal because "you can't play basketball with broken hands.". The Providence game was played on December 6, 1978, and Boston College was favored to win by six to seven points. Purdum, David. The syndicate was able to lay nine points when the game was first available to be bet, and therefore pushed. There were times when the work got really hard, when I wanted to give up, when I had to stay up all night reading or studying or writing papers, and shed be right there pushing me, telling me, You cant give up! 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. All Kuhn had to do was ensure that the Eagles fell short of the point spread in the games that they bet on. Playing for the Mob: The Story of College Kids Breaking Bad won the gangsters some serious money by falling short of the spread. The Globe, quoting an unnamed source in New York, said the three games in which point-shaving was alleged were a Feb.3 game against Fordham, a Feb. 6 game against St. Johns and a March 1 game in the ECAC Regional Playoffs against Connecticut. The former friends work hard to cast blame and the true conversations that went on between the mobsters and players will never be discovered. Same here, and yet when they did their list of greatest sports scandals a few weeks back (when Miami broke) they didn't have it on there the first day. U.S. District Judge Henry Bramwell set sentencing for Jan. 8. They kept saying that they liked the idea of just shaving points and not blowing the games." Cobb, for his part, was tried for conspiracy and acquitted. He is a participant in the Federal Witness Protection Program and is receiving government protection in exchange for his testimony. Mazzei in turn contacted Henry Hill, a Lucchese crime family associate from New York who had befriended Mazzei while both men were serving sentences in a federal prison. They showed me these pictures of these mafia guys and were asking me, Do you know him? 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 This is when the documentary transitions to the Pittsburgh mobsters and how they meet. With Sweeney making it out with no sentence, the mystery still remains of how involved he really was. He talks about how he wanted to be an NBA player. View Rick Kuhns profile on LinkedIn, the worlds largest professional community. But Kuhn was a player of limited ability, so he recruited his roommate and best friend, who also happened to be the most important player on the floor, the teams senior point guard, Jim Sweeney. Kuhn was thus expected to keep the score below the six- to seven-point margin. The problem was Cobb. Hes also jumping on the scandals latest publicity wave to tout Mike, the SpongeBob-like sports cartoon character whose online life includes links to the NFL Shop, NBA Store and other merchandise outlets. Ernie Cobb is also introduced, a senior, team captain, and Boston Colleges top scorer. They left, and that was that. [3] Kuhn was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment,[4] later reduced to 28 months. 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. Contact Me. Can anyone shed some Thats why I got into education and coaching. All because, he says, of those five crinkled $100 bills dropped at his feet one day in the locker room. Jim Sweeney admits that Kuhn gave him cash. Ultimately, nothing happened. Im stuck. BOSTON - NOVEMBER 17: Rick Kuhn (#35) during Boston College men's basketball's 1978-1979 season. "It really could be far more serious and more of an annual situation than anyone suspects," said Ralph Miller, basketball coach at Oregon State University. The December 16 game against Harvard was chosen as the second test for the scheme. The point-shaving allegations surfaced during an unrelated investigation into the 1978 theft of $5.8 million from the Lufthansa cargo terminal at New Yorks Kennedy Airport. The final player involved in the fix, Rick Kuhn, is introduced. And yeah, I took that money. 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. Danois, Alejandro. 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. The audience learns about Boston Colleges rival Holy Cross and its huge significance to the players and the alumni. 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. It wasnt an absolute disaster but it was a cousin. 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? I told him, I think were gonna blow them out, we look really good. We get footage of the games and the scheme continued, but no one knew just how much the fixers made. When one of his links leads to a purchase of, say, a LeBron James Fathead, he gets a 15% commission. I didnt think anything of it. Jim Sweeney was not charged. Music. talked to the Nets, their head coach Kevin Loughery called him in and said, You know why I have to let you go, said Alswanger. Those later betters on St. John's lost money because they laid more than the eventual nine point margin of victory. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Walgreens agreed to pay $83 million to settle a lawsuit in West Virginia related to its role in the opioid crisis and its effect on the state, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Wednesday. Kuhn was thus expected to keep the score below the six- to seven-point margin. Sweeney, who went on a year later to win the Naismith Award as college basketballs top player under six feet tall, says he was initially recruited into the fix by Kuhn without his knowledge and that he never intentionally threw an errant pass, missed a shot or did anything else to alter a game. I hadnt seen Ernie for several years, Jack Hennessey, a psychologist at Boston College that had served as an informal academic advisor during Cobbs days as a student, told the New York Times in April of 1984. As a freshman, he played sparingly and averaged 4.5 points per game while the Eagles finished with a disappointing 9-17 overall record. 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. The Perla brothers mobilized a betting syndicate to maximize their potential gain from the scheme. Fake cannabis billionaire pleads guilty to securities fraud. When he was implicated in the scandal, I was shocked.. Kuhn's sentence was the heaviest ever imposed on a college player convicted of point shaving. Cobb scores 8 points in the last minute of the game only to be blocked in the last seconds of the game. All of those guys walkedin his footsteps., He was the African-American guard in the modern era of B.C. The scheme was conceived by Rocco Perla and his brother Anthony in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1978. Hes innocent., When they indicted me, they wanted Peter Vario, the mobster, so they tried us together, said Cobb. The Providence game was played on December 6, 1978, and Boston College was favored to win by six to seven points. Kuhn was thus expected to keep the score below the six- to seven-point margin. 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. ESPN The move on and they all thought the fixes were history. 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. 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. It was a tragedy that he never got another chance to play in the NBA., Kevin Loughery never gave me a firm reason why the Nets were letting me go, said Cobb. The Providence game was played on December 6, 1978, and Boston College was favored to win by six to seven points. I was eating Rory Sparrow up, who went on to have a decent NBA career, in that camp. Rocco has a vague conversation with Cobb over winning certain games, but both sides wont admit to knowing the extent to which he was involved. Justice Department files complaint after officer fired for opioid use disorder. A federal jury in Brooklyn yesterday convicted former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn and four codefendants of conspiring to manipulate the scores of Boston College games during the 1978-79 season. Rocco says Sweeney told him he missed it to avoid a pair of cement shoes. Interim Application of Copyright and Trademark Registration in Cochin. Id led the pro league in scoring over there and signed a very nice contract. 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. "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. I dont know what went down because I wasnt involved. Film. Being at Boston College, when I first got there, was so amazing, said Cobb. The scheme was hit or miss early on. 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. Were you shaving points for the mob?. As a backup center with limited effect on a games outcome, he won over the mobsters by bringing Ernie Cobb, the teams leading scorer, and Sweeney, the point guard who controlled the ball for much of the game, into the fold. When the evidence came up at the first trial, it didnt match up, but they still came after me a few years later. Mazzei and Tony Perla were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. With Roccos high school buddy Rick Kuhn entering his senior year at Boston College, where he was expected to be a contributor to the schools basketball team, the brothers figured they could make a ton of money. Sweeney says that he and Maura have almost recouped their costs in launching the character. And look what he did to the lives of those kids. We have decided to cover the most scandalous of all 30-for-30s, Playing for the Mob. Web197879 Boston College Eagles men's basketball team. They said they were trying like hell but they couldnt get the job done because Cobb was the key man on the team., After Boston College beat Holy Cross 89-87 in the first game between the two schools that season, Hill said in SI, Well, B.C. Cmon, you can do it. She was a remarkable individual that helped me so much, in terms of establishing the study and work habits that allowed me to be successful in the classroom.. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images ESPN's latest 30 for 30 film tackles the Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal. Sweeney, starter and team captain, intentionally fouls himself out of the game. 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. Rick Kuhn, the former Boston College basketball player who was convicted last November, and sentenced last February for his involvement in the point shaving They could have probably gotten away with the fix if they handled certain things better. @ChristSchool. According to Hill's testimony, he met with Kuhn and cocaptain Jim Sweeney in a hotel room near Boston's Logan Airport in November of 1978 to cement the deal. Perla and Kuhn had gone to high school together and were good friends. The audience gets one on one interviews with each person to see the scandal from their perspective. The jury of eight women and four men reached its verdict after three days of deliberations and a trial that lasted five weeks. In 1978, Rick Kuhn was in his final season at Boston College,amarginal player with little going for him. Kuhn would be responsible for ensuring, by his play on the court, that Boston College fell short of the point spread. We had a good old time. He traveled throughout the world, getting paid to play the game that he loved. 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. like that until he got there. Fellow player Michael Bowie begins to ask questions, but Sweeney argues that they are still winning. Rocco Perla and Kuhn were high-school classmates. Hill casually brings up and admits to fixing basketball games at Boston College. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Netflix wants to hire a flight attendant for one of its private jets, and says pay can reach $385,000, according to a job listing on the streaming service's website. Cobb was drafted by the Utah Jazz in the 6th Round and cut during training camp. 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. Even though he was not guilty, Boston College has erased them from their memory. They had Kuhn approach Ernie Cobb, the leading scorer on the team, but it has never been proven if Cobb agreed to cooperate. We were all so excited for him. I opened up the door and it was these guys from the F.B.I., said Cobb. 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. If this film has taught us anything, it is that it doesnt matter which side was more at fault, ultimately the decisions they made changed their lives forever. At one point, he said accepted $500 from Kuhn, but only to give the illusion of cooperating in the scheme. I was forthright and honest with them. 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. He rebounded well and was a good outlet Seven schools and more than 30 players were implicated in the 1951 probe; more than 20 schools were involved in the 1961 incidents. Sweeney knows hell probably never completely escape the association to the scandal, something he learned to live with years ago. He said he was brought in on the deal for his ability to maximize profits through his contacts in the gambling world. It was national news that brought Cobb, Sweeney, and Kuhn under massive headlines. She knew the terrain in terms of what I needed to be doing, said Cobb. 197879 Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal. Kuhn's attorney, Gary Zimmerman, said his client recognized the seriousness of his crimes and that his stiff jail sentence 'was a stern warning to other college athletes.'. But Im so proud of him because he picked his life back up and made the best of it. I was so frustrated at one point that I got on my bike in Stamford, Connecticut and just started riding. But I never agreed to fix any games or shave any points. And in that article in Sports Illustrated, Henry Hill says, The word came back that Cobb was enthusiastic. The key phrase there is The word came back. I dont know what Rick Kuhn was telling Henry Hill or the Perla brothers. 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. Snitching is seen as one of the worst things you can do to a business partner, but to these people, it is just water under the bridge. Art. For all I know, he told them I was in, that it would cost an extra $2,500 per game and he was trying to hustle the gangsters while pocketing the extra money. I walk in the bathroom, and who was in there but Peter Vario, the big-time mobster that was on trial with Ernie, said Alswanger. I had everything I could have possibly asked for. My girlfriend and I bought a new stereo, television and some furniture. Other times, they didnt deliver as promised, which caused some very dangerous and ill-tempered men to lose large sums of cash. The same channels would be used for the passing of the point spread from Burke and Hill to the players. In 2014, the ESPN-produced 30 for 30 series debuted Playing for the Mob,[6] the story about how Hill and his Pittsburgh associates, and several Boston College basketball players, perpetrated the point-shaving scheme during the 197879 season, an episode briefly mentioned in the movie Goodfellas. 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. I dont know if they recognize it, but B.C. She helped tutor me, and encouraged me through some rough spots. This is a BETA experience. 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. For over 30 years, hes been living in Clearwater, Florida, married to his college sweetheart. 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. The conspirators chose the January 17, 1979, game against Connecticut to implement this plan. 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. 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. These bookies could handle large bets and lay them off and spread the bets among a number of unsuspecting bookmakers around the country so as not to arouse suspicion. In early February, Boston College was scheduled to play two New York State teams, Fordham and St. John's. The campus was so beautiful. 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. 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. This is an important part of the documentary because it shows the respect they have for one another regardless of the past. When the story first broke, it said that Michael Bowie and I were the ones implicated, said Cobb. But, as Sweeney points out, the government didnt need to prove that point shaving actually happened, just that a conspiracy to shave them had. Loughery told me that I had the ability to play in the NBA. Sweeney goes on to sell his computer service company and make millions. Kuhn explains to Sweeney that they are both going to get killed after not successfully fixing a game against Providence. 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. 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. There were a lot of rich kids who went to Boston College. 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. 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. The story breaks to the media and the massive investigation followed. Said Hill, "I asked the players which of the upcoming games they felt we could shave. hoops that blazed a trail, Mills continued. Everybody involved in the scandal got sentenced except for Hill and Sweeney. 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. 30 Years After His Exoneration, Former BC Hoops Star Ernie Cobb Is Still Fighting to Clear His Name Pt. At the close of the two-week trial, Alswanger was the last character witness who took the stand in Cobbs behalf. Fourteen hours later, I arrived in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.. He told me to keep playing and working hard and that one day I might get another chance., When the story first broke in January of 1981, Cobb was in shock. It was a sweet victory for prosecutors against Burke, for whom they failed to even build a charge against for his biggest crime, the famous $6 million Lufthansa heist. I just thank God there is justice.. The scheme thus ended on an unsuccessful note. Today, Cobbs relationship with Boston College remains strained. 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Kuhn grew up to be 6-foot-8, and signed a minor league contract with the Cincinnati Reds right after finishing high school. He talks about the fix and how Jimmy Burke participated even though he wasnt the ringleader. It was all so positive.. Holy Cross wins by two causing the mobsters to lose hundreds of thousands. Its the same crew that had a connection to BC basketball player Rick Kuhn, who hailed from the area. A crime story, about the mafia fixing a college basketball game, alleged innocent college basketball kids, and involves small time bookies in Pittsburgh, its really a story of betrayal and people turning on one another, and all being done in the name of greed. Director Joe Lavine. They contacted a local friend, Paul Mazzei, who was known to have influence within major New York gambling circles. Kuhn tells Sweeney that the mobsters in New York and Pittsburgh want this win and that this will be the last fix. After perhaps his greatest moment during the preseason, when he had that outstanding game against the Celtics right before the regular season tipped off, Cobb was relaxing in his hotel room when he heard a knock at the door. 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. 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. Sometimes, B.C. Sweeney purposefully misses a free throw to help the fixers win even though he is the best free-throw shooter in the nation. 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. 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